Ivan Cooper 1944-2019: We need more of his type

Social injustice is injustice no matter from which side of a political or religious divide your opinions are formed. Thus it was that during darkest days of the South African apartheid regime that some of the doughtiest campaigners for freedom and civil rights were drawn from the white liberal and left-wing communities.

Churchgoers and politicians joined the ranks of the oppressed blacks on the Selma to Montgomery march as they processed along the Edmund Pettus Bridge. And in the North there are stirring examples of Protestants who recognised the treatment of Catholics, understood that within it lay the seeds of perpetual conflict, and resolved to aid the cause of reform.