从囚徒成为总统的曼德拉曾看望将他送入监牢的前白人政权总理的遗孀,也曾会见几十年前将他宣判入狱的白人法官和始终对种族主义统治表示不后悔的前白人总统。这种胸怀避免了南非因种族问题发生内战,让种族和解成为社会发展主流。正是这种和解、宽恕精神切中了当今人类社会的要害,也因此使得曼德拉精神有如此巨大的感染力。 Mandela, who had been the prisoner’s predecessor, visited the widow of the former White Regal Prime Minister who sent him to prison and met with a white judge who sentenced him to jail decades ago and a former white man who has always regretted racist rule president. This kind of ambition prevented South Africa from civil war due to ethnic issues and made ethnic reconciliation the mainstream of social development. It is this kind of reconciliation, in which the spirit of forgiveness cuts the crux of human society today and thus makes Mandela’s spirit so contagious.