Mama Winnie Mandela Quotes

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

Mama Winnie Mandela

“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.”

Mama Winnie Mandela

“All what we fought for is not what is going on right now. It is a tragedy that he lived and saw what was happening, we cannot pretend like South Africa is not in crisis, our country is in crisis and anyone who cannot see that is just bluffing themselves.”

Mama Winnie Mandela

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

Mama Winnie Mandela

โ€œI believe something is very wrong with the history of our country, and how we have messed up the African National Congress.โ€

Mama Winnie Mandela

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

Mama Winnie Mandela

“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.”

Mama Winnie Mandela

“If you are to free yourselves you must break the chains of oppression yourselves. Only then can we express our dignity, only when we have liberated ourselves can we cooperate with other groups. Any acceptance of humiliation, indignity or insult is acceptance of inferiority.”

Mama Winnie Mandela

The years of imprisonment hardened me… I no longer have the emotion of fear… 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.”

Mama Winnie Mandela