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1987年的耶路撒冷奖颁予我,在我看来构成了一个难以调和的悖论:像我这样一个人,不仅来自而且居住于一个臭名昭著的不自由的国度,却荣获了一个为自由而设的奖项,何以可能?在一个由主人和奴隶构成的社会里,没有人是自由的。奴隶不自由,因为他不是自己的主人;主人不自由,因为他离了奴隶便寸步难行。许多个世纪以来,南非都是一个由主人和农奴构成的社会;而现如今,南非土地上的农奴们公然揭竿而起,主人们溃不成军。在南非,主人们自成一个封闭的世袭社会阶
The award of the 1987 Jerusalem Prize awarded me, in my view, a paradoxical paradox: a man like me, not only from and living in a notoriously not free land, has won a place for freedom How is it possible? In a society of masters and slaves, no one is free. Slave is not free, because he is not his master; the owner is not free, because he left the slave will not move. For many centuries South Africa has been a society of masters and serfs; today, serfdom on the land of South Africa openly rises and its masters defeat. In South Africa, the masters themselves became a closed hereditary class