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“It's determination. It is knowing that nobody will do it if you don't. It's knowing that if the people have chosen you to work for them, then you are their slave. So you must do their work.”
As reported by Green Left Weekly · Address to a South African Women's Day gathering, Sydney, 9 August 1991, reported in Green Left Weekly, issue 24, 21 August 1991
Context She was answering reporters who kept asking how she stayed strong through detentions, banning orders and her husband's life sentence, on a visit to Australia at the government's invitation.
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