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I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy.
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The brutality of apartheid drains you of that emotion of fear if you have gone through everything you can be put through in the process of harassment.
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We should have sent the apartheid monsters to jail, not let them off with an amnesty.
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The years of imprisonment hardened me ... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life ... 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.
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It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive.
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Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.
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We cannot pretend we do not have problems; we cannot pretend things are not wrong in our country. A lot of things are wrong.
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You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid.