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“I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy.”
Source: Remarks to reporters, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, c. 1 October 1999
Context Visiting India to open a children's cultural festival, she was asked why she kept the Mandela surname after her 1996 divorce from Nelson Mandela.
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