Word: tutu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three candidates were self-nominated by petition and received the endorsement of South African Anglican Bishop Desmond M. Tutu in a January 10 speech at Harvard...
Impatience with the apartheid regime pushed Bishop Desmond Tutu last week to call on the international community to impose economic sanctions against the South African government. Shortly after winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, Tutu warned that he would openly support sanctions unless the government dismantled apartheid within two years. Last week he said his patience had run out. "I have no hope of real change from government unless they are forced," he declared. "We face a catastrophe in this land, and only the action of the international community by applying pressure can save us." The government- controlled broadcast...
...action the students are taking in that they are being committed to the struggle and are seeking to make the University and other people aware that it is not merely financial decisions that are being made. It is decisions that have to be made on moral principles." (Bishop Tutu quoted in Nat Hentof, "Summing Up," the Village Voice, April...
...help us the last peaceful instrument available to us: your pressure. For nothing in South Africa has changed without pressure. My dear friends, I wish to declare here my endorsement for election to the Board of Overseers of Kenneth Simmons, John Plotz and Gay Seidman." (Bishop Desmond Tutu, LLD '79, January 10, 1986 at the Kennedy School...
...other side of this liberation game, in which people have given their lives, people have been incarcerated, young children four years old have been killed, we want, when we get onto that other side, to say, `You know something? Harvard University was with us. Harvard University helped."' (Bishop Tutu, January...