Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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

I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy.

Sport has the power to change the world.

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

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.

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.

Not only were [the British] able to break into China for the first time, but also the profits from opium supported the Raj, the costs of the British Navy, and provided very significant capital which fueled the industrial revolution in England.

It’s not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures- it’s inevitable. But unless the process that is taking place here and elsewhere in the country and around the world, unless that continues to grow and becomes a major force in the social and political world, the chances for a decent future are not very high.

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

The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for ‘undermining support for our troops.’

The New York Times, reported in 2009, that the Obama administration had made a secret deal with the pharmaceutical industry in which it promised not to allow the government to use its purchasing power to negotiate drug prices, as is done in every other country…

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin’s still learning.

On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact countries and told them: ‘You are independent, and we are independent. You are responsible for your policies, we are responsible for ours. We will not intervene in your affairs, I promise you.’

In a situation of occupation or domination, the occupier…has to justify what it’s doing. There is only one way to do it — become a racist. You have to blame the victim. Once you become a raving racist in self-defense, you’ve lost your capacity to understand what’s happening.

Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.

No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

I do have a relationship [with Putin] and I can tell you he’s very interested in what we’re doing here today

I would like to draw your attention to the fact that in Russia, unlike in one third of the world’s countries, being gay is not a crime.

Quantity has a quality all its own.

I have a great relationship with African Americans, as you possibly have heard. I just have great respect for them. And they like me. I like them.

Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course to be remembered, but diluting their particularity or comparing degrees of evil does no good.