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.
Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering.
My parents had this incredibly vital relationship with an audience, like muscle with blood. This was the main competition I had for my parents' attention: an audience.
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitutions protection of privacy.
We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are - whether it's here in the United States or, as Hillary (Clinton) mentioned, more extremely in odious laws that are being proposed most recently in Uganda.
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