Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bishop Tutu and conservative Congressmen join the protest
...voice was resonant, his accent lilting, his demeanor disarmingly gentle. But his words carried a sting. "We do not want our chains comfortable," South Africa's Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu told the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa. "We want them removed." The black clergyman, who will travel to Oslo this week to accept the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, assailed the U.S. policy of "constructive engagement" with South Africa as "immoral, evil and totally un-Christian." "We shall be free," he declared. "And we shall remember who helped us become free." Breaking their own rules, the subcommittee members gave...
...know that Harvard plays monopoly with gold and silver and is part of the world 'money changers', but why did Harvard think it had a right to monopolize the visit of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Bishop Tutu?" Vellucci wrote in the letter published Monday...
...perhaps that which was most recalled to me by Bishop Tutu's remarks. Both Tutu and King impressed the listener with their moral certitude that the existing order was unjust, and their faith that injustice can be changed by moral actions of individuals--their common Christian conviction. In those years, it was common to hear the protest of the southern white. "But you can't legislate love." Presumably few expected to see the South come spontaneously into a state of perfect Christian love and then integrate of its own volition. Yet, in the few short years since the Civil Rights...
...with discomfort that I listened to Bishop Turu's descriptions of the horrors of apartheid--discomfort and shame that Harvard can deliver to the Bishop an inscribed tribute while maintaining its investment policy. It recalls that southern hypocrisy of a generation ago, not Harvard's "pursuit of truth." The premise that pursuit of truth indeed leads to justice is one of the foundations of Western civilization, however often ignored or given only lip service. Is it necessary to repeat former South African Prime Minister Verster's statement that "each trade agreement, each bank loan, each new investment is another brick...