Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

We have no guns – we have only stones, boxes of matches and petrol. Together, hand in hand, with our boxes of matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.

They think because they have put my husband on an island that he will be forgotten. They are wrong. The harder they try to silence him, the louder I will become!

It was in the townships where we shed so much blood. Nothing could have been achieved without the sacrifice of the people. Black people.

To those who oppose us, we say, ‘Strike the woman, and you strike the rock.’

Preventing the conflicts of tomorrow means changing the mindsets of the youth of today.

It is only when all black groups, join hands and speak with one voice that we shall be a bargaining force which will decide its own destiny.

Don’t say “the White House wants.” Buildings can’t want.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by ‘sophisticated’ methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

I have never stated Russia is an energy superpower, but we have more reserves than almost anybody else. We have always behaved, and we will continue to behave, in a responsible way. We intend to participate in the elaboration of common rules in the energy sector and to abide by rules which are developed together.

I am never guided by a possible assessment of my work.

If you’ve taken an economics course, you know that markets are supposed to be based on informed consumers making rational choices. You take a look at the first ad you see on television and ask yourself … is that its purpose? No it’s not.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

Within the reigning social order, the general public must remain an object of manipulation, not a participant in thought, debate, and decision.

The media system protects itself with indignation against a challenge to the right of deceit in the service of power, and the very idea of subjecting the ideological system to rational inquiry elicits incomprehension or outrage, though it is often masked in other terms.

I will continue – as Labour Leader – to pursue the causes of peace and justice in Israel-Palestine, the wider Middle East and all over the world. But those who claim to do so with hateful or inflammatory language do no service to anyone, especially dispossessed and oppressed people in need of better advocacy.

Debate cannot be stilled, and indeed, in a properly functioning system of propaganda, it should not be, because it has a system-reinforcing character if constrained within proper bounds. What is essential is to set the bounds firmly.

In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy course to pursue.

But the rich countries of the world-the United States, European Union-the ones who have an overwhelming responsibility for the circumstances from which the refugees are fleeing, they can’t help with it. They can’t deal with it. Too much for us. Go somewhere else.

Americans believe their freedom to be the best instrument and surest safeguard… to secure for themselves a government which will allow them to acquire the things they covet and which will not debar them from the peaceful enjoyment of those possessions.