You have no right to harden your heart in this country. - Mary Burton

The daily hearing of the stories, I think it took everybody on the TRC into some very dark places

Picking bathroom taps is of little interest to me, but it has to be done

At the time, it just seemed like the right thing to do. I was fortunate in that my husband supported me. But my parents-in-law were very anxious. And that was something that really had to be negotiated. My mother-in-law had known some of the women who first joined the Black Sash, but she said to me, you know, that they left because it was getting very communistic. I mean, there was nothing communistic about the group. But that was the perception – very clever propaganda on the part of the government. And anything communism was just terrifying, people were absolutely terrified.