Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Quotes

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.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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• I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Up
  • Government
  • Human

• My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Good
  • Country
  • Man

• The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Power
  • Law
  • Government

• No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Government
  • Artist
  • Should

• The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Down
  • Privacy

• Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Government
  • Taken

• I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Work
  • Important
  • Government

• Despite the fact that Rouhani has been a long-time insider in a government that has committed countless human rights violations, and that he himself called for the execution of peaceful activists in 1999, many people inside and outside Iran are optimistic that he might indeed favor greater respect for the rights of the Iranian people.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• What happens in the heart simply happens.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Heart
  • Happens
  • Simply

• Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Waiting
  • Something
  • Happen

• I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Girl

• In your career you have a lot of good moments and bad ones. The important thing is to have enough motivation to keep working all the days with humility and trying to be a better player than before. I am going to try to continue doing this.' 5

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Good
  • Important
  • Trying

• I don’t see anyone better than me. No player does things that I cannot do myself, but I see things others can’t do. There’s no more complete player than me. I’m the best player in history - in the good and the bad moments.

  

  Cristiano Ronaldo
  • Good
  • Bad
  • History

• I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.

  

  Angie Harmon
  • Waiting

• It's funny, one of my most solid carpet moments happened in the very beginning, before I started thinking that I needed all these other people to do my hair and makeup, and pick out my clothes. I wore a cheetah sweater and a red hat, and it's one of my favorite looks, even still.

  

  Dawn Olivieri
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Funny

• As a single mother of four, my mother taught me that you always want to show up strong for the moments that really matter with family, friends, and community. I now recognize how her strength helped shape the person I am today and the mother that I have become.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Up
  • Family
  • Friends

• 'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Art
  • May
  • Fun

• Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Life
  • Waiting

• To your point earlier if a female movie does well they're like "Oohhhh! I can't believe it did well! Maybe the next one will do well, too."

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Female movie

• I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Style
  • Study
  • Theatre

• Born to a premature death, a menial, subsistence-wage worker, odd-job man, the cleaner, the caught, the man under hatches, without bail-that's me, the colonial victim. Anyone who can pass the civil service examination today can kill me tomorrow. Anyone who passed the civil service examination yesterday can kill me today with complete immunity.

  

  George Jackson
  • Victim
  • Examination
  • Immunity

• I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Authority
  • Demands
  • Nonbeliever

• Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• 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.

  

  Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
  • Government
  • Moments
  • Waiting