Trevor Huddleston (1913–1998)

Father Trevor Huddleston became world famous through his championship of the rights and dignity of the non-European races in South Africa during the apartheid years. The years between 1944 -1956 he ministered in Sophiatown, the coloured quarter outside Johannesburg. The last years of his ministry here were increasingly bitter: he became embroiled in constant conflict with the Authorities. Famously a Magistrate once asked him if he thought it was a function of a priest to defy the government. “Is it a function of a priest to remain silent in the face of injustice?” replied Huddleston. "The truth about the overwhelming majority of white South Africans" observed Huddleston, "is that they have no conception whatever of human relationships except that based on racial domination".

Here is his account of his fight to uphold the rights of the black man and of the acts of defiance to which circumstances and his conscience as a Christian had driven him to. Huddleston died in 1998.… (meer)