"'In judging our progress as individuals, ' he [Nelson Mandela] would write to Winnie, 'we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education. . .but internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being: honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, purity, generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve your fellow men - qualities within the reach of every soul. . .'"
Mandela: The Authorized Portrait, p. 166
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