Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Allan Boesak
Born: February 23, 1946 (age 78)
Bio: Allan Aubrey Boesak is a South African Dutch Reformed Church cleric and politician and anti-apartheid activist. He was sentenced to prison for fraud in 1999 but was subsequently granted an official pardon and reinstated as a cleric in late 2004.
Known for:
- Comfort and protest (1987)
- Farewell to innocence (1976)
- Black and reformed (1984)