Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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

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.

I believe something is very wrong with the history of our country and how we have messed up the African National Congress.

I cannot forgive him [Nelson Mandela] for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize with his jailer De Klerk. Hand in hand they went. Do you think De Klerk released him from the goodness of his heart? He had to. The times dictated it, the world had changed.

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.

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.

Once wide coercive powers are given to government agencies…such powers cannot be effectively controlled.

If Hillary Clinton can’t satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America?

Our task, your task… is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, ‘Well, where’s the smoking gun?’ Well, we don’t want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

The description of what the Europeans did is just monstrous. The British and Dutch merchants — actually merchant warriors — moved into Asia and broke into trading areas that had been functioning for long, long periods, with pretty well-established rules.

I’m eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they’ve trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.

I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.

A free press is essential to our democracy, but much of our press isn’t very free at all.

The dynamic of revolutionary events is directly determined by swift, intense, and passionate changes in the psychology of classes which have already formed themselves before the revolution.

I want every individual who has the potential and qualifications to succeed in higher education to be given the opportunity to participate, whatever their family background.

I cannot forgive him [Nelson Mandela] for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize with his jailer De Klerk. Hand in hand they went. Do you think De Klerk released him from the goodness of his heart? He had to. The times dictated it, the world had changed.

A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That’s the most important thing.

Now the shift is toward trying to keep taxes just on wages and on consumption – which everyone has to do – not, say, on dividends, which only go to the rich. And that’s shifted the burden enormously.

When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later.

If you do what you believe in, you’re strong. It’s when you don’t do what you believe in that you’re weak. And we are strong.

I’d be the world’s worst drinker!