imagination in our politics. when you say about him being unflinching in speaking truth to power it applied to the anc which goes from revolutionary movement for liberation and multi racial democracy to the ruling party and he was extremely forth right about his critiques of inequality and corruption and went after the president and in the context of having struggled with people, to overthrow this regime, this sense of kind of, you don t want to betray your comrades and to have the kind of moral courage to just say the truth as you see it when people are in power i always found incredible. i had a conversation about those critiques with archbishop tutu when i became u.s. ambassador to south africa. of course he was really proud of what we had achieved in the u.s. with the election of barack obama but i remember archbishop tutu holding up his own example and he said just as i had to
rally at the united nations when he said the united states was morally wrong to invade iraq.ra extraordinary figure, wr extraordinary courage. i dare say not only will his kind not come again but as i think of the conversation you just had with congresswoman dingell and the lack of civility we re seeing in our politics, there is a usefulness to his extraordinary service and the in lessons he gave us that should carry forward in a time when we have a poverty of moral imagination in our politics. when you say about him being unflinching in speaking truth ti power it applied to the anc tr which goes from revolutionary movement for liberation and multi racial democracy to the ruling party and he was extremely forth right about his critiques of inequality and corruption and went after the president and in the context of having struggled with people, to overthrow this regime, this