Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

I will not allow the selfless efforts of my husband and his friends to be abandoned. I will continue the struggle for a free and equal South Africa.

The overwhelming majority of women accept the patriarchy and protect it. Traditionally, the violated wife offloads her aggression onto the daughter-in-law. Men dominate women through the agency of women themselves.

Sport has the power to change the world.

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

There is no longer anything I can fear. There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn’t any pain I haven’t known.

I’m not sorry. I will never be sorry. I would do everything I did again if I had to. Everything.

The goal of Socialism is Communism.

I have some rules of my own. One of them is never to regret anything. Over time, I came to the conclusion that this was the right thing to do. As soon as you start regretting and looking back, you start to sour. You always have to think about the future. You always have to look ahead. Of course you have to analyze your past mistakes, but only so that you can learn and correct the course of your life.

[The Americans] should accept their part of the blame. Let them say so. We talked to them all the time, we were telling them that we want Afghanistan to be an independent country, that we are leaving, we are withdrawing from that country. But at that same time, our partners were working in secret with those forces with whom they are now fighting. It’s called the historical and political boomerang. I think God has some mechanism that he uses to punish those that make mistakes.

The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

Sometimes it’s important to watch what the president does rather than what he says.

My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

It’s the first time in American history that a candidate [Sanders] probably could have won, if it hadn’t been for party managers who kept him out, with no funding from the corporate sector, and no funding from the wealthy, and no media support.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of majority. That’s the way it’s done in the U.S., and that’s the way it’s done in Russia.

I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don’t see much of a distinction beyond that.

This is a method by which to restrain Russia, the notorious sanctions, because endless accusations lay the groundwork for introducing restraining measures.

Hizbullah is not a militia.

Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.

We should be adult and grown up and decriminalise cannabis