"Otherwise I remain cosmopolitan in my outlook; in my thoughts I am as free as a falcon.
The anchor of all my dreams is the collective wisdom of mankind as a whole. I
am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social
equality is the only basis of human happiness... It is around these
issues that my thougts resolve. They
are centred on humans, the ideas for which they strive; on the new
world that is emerging; the new generation that declares total war
against all forms of cruelty, against any social order that upholds
economic privilege for a minority and that condemns the mass of the
population to poverty and disease, illiteracy and the host of evils that
accompany a stratified society".
From a letter to Senator Douglas Lukhele in Swaziland, 1 August 1970.
Nelson Mandela, "Conversations with Myself",
London, Macmillan, 2010, p. 182-183. 
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