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...Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, a brave and noble voice from an almost forgotten continent...
...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...
...former Cambridge mayor whipped off a strongly worded letter to. The Boston Globe criticizing Harvard's handling of the visit Last week of Anglican Archbishop and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu...
Attending the December 3 service by Bishop Desmond Tutu at Memorial Church took me back to two events of my undergraduate years. In 1963, I was part of the August 28 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the famous "I Have a Dream" march. Later that year, Reverend Martin Luther King conducted a Sunday service at Mt. Holyoke College, to which a student friend invited me. I had grown up in North Carolina, but with "Yankee" parents, so, from junior high school on I was able to see the significance of the growing struggle for equality in the South...
...four hour Harvard visit yesterday, Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Desmond M Tutu charged that U.S. investment in South Africa directly supports apartheid, his country's state mandated system of segregation...