Winnie Mandela Quotes

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

For we went, changing our country more often than our shoes In the class war, despairing When there was only injustice and no resistance

I am not the least bit surprised that injustice persists. I'm also not surprised that resistance to injustice persists.

Justice, particularly for the oppressed and marginalized in our society, never comes without great effort and sacrifice.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

Injustice can never be stood for.

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

There are nations, where people live in captivity, fear and silence. I believe, one day from prison camps and torture cells and from exile the leaders of freedom will emerge. The world should stand with those oppressed people until the day of their freedom finally arrives.

I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.

The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.

I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.

When I was growing up, Mandela's name was synonymous with terror. We were scared of him. You couldn't see any photos of him. A photo of him could have gotten you in jail.

Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets. If it had not been for the men and women who, in the past, have had the moral courage to go to jail, we would still be in the jungles.

It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.... My prison-house is but an intensified replica of the world beyond, the larger prison locked with the levers of Greed, guarded by the spawn of Hunger.

If it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I say, let it be done. [He was executed.]

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice.

In the American provinces formerly subject to the Spanish Empire a brilliant scene is opened at present, the valor, the resolution of the heroes, the enthusiasm of the ancient and modern republicans have been displayed gloriously for the cause of national liberty. The sword of expiring tyranny has immolated in some places many victims; but from their blood new heroes have arisen.

We will have demonstrations until the injustices that have caused them are eliminated.

I'll continue fighting as long as these social injustices exist.