❝It was only when I began to learn that my boyhood freedom was an
illusion, when I discovered as a young man that my freedom had already
been taken from me, that I began to hunger for it. At first as a student I
wanted freedom only for myself, the transitory freedoms of being able to
stay out at night, read what I pleased and go where I chose. Later, as a
young man in Johannesburg, I yearned for the basic and honourable
freedoms...❞