I was married to the ANC. It was the best marriage I ever had.
Interpretation
This quote reflects a deep commitment and affection towards the African National Congress (ANC) as if it were a marriage.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela expresses her profound dedication to the ANC, emphasizing the significance of her involvement with the organization in her life. By likening her relationship with the ANC to a marriage, she conveys the sense of loyalty, passion, and fulfillment she experienced through her political activism, suggesting that her commitment to the struggles and ideals of the ANC brought her both personal satisfaction and a sense of purpose.
In practice
During a speech at a political rally, one might say: 'As Winnie Madikizela-Mandela once stated, 'I was married to the ANC,' emphasizing the deep commitment we must have in our political engagements.
In the normal course of things, journalists want their story, and as soon as they are through with it, they pack their cameras and go. That was never the impression that David Astor gave when you were interviewed by him. It was far deeper than that.
One of the greatest things I fear is letting down my people. I wouldn't live with that type of conscience, of having let down my people after they've been brutalized for so long.
I wanted to be a doctor at some point, and I was always bringing home strays from school: people who were too poor to pay fees or have food. My parents never rebuked me or told me that they were hard-pressed, too.
We shall liberate our country.
I learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive.
I am not sorry. I will never be sorry. I would do everything I did again if I had to. Everything.
The very ingredients that nurture love - mutuality, reciprocity, protection, worry, responsibility for the other - are sometimes the very ingredients that stifle desire.
And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.
Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.
It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay and lesbian couples are subject to the same complications and hardships that afflict marriages between heterosexual couples.
When a child shuts down his painful emotional side, he also loses the ability to express his joyous side. Emotions are a whole. With anger comes the ability to express delight; with sadness comes the ability to express lightheartedness. This is the breadth of emotion that allows an adult to experience intimacy with a spouse, with God, and with his children
What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.
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