Mandela left us a provocative sentence whose meaning is nonetheless not always comprehensible: "to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

"The freedom of others," he said: The freedom of others is what also brings my freedom.

When Mandela stepped out of captivity, when the Blacks of South Africa were freed from the oppression of the apartheid regime, he freed himself of two