religious values at the office door. Apartheid was an evil, and business
had great power in South Africa. Where there is power, there is also
responsibil- ity. I prayed about this long and hard. I pushed the
companies as much as I thought I could. There were advances and there
were setbacks, but finally we prevailed and the Blacks of South Africa
secured their freedom. My effort in behalf of the Sullivan Principles
was only one of a number of significant efforts of the anti-apartheid
movement. All of those other efforts must be recognized, as well. The
Sullivan Principles and the manner in which they were implemented in
South Africa were in the nature of a grand experiment in the
sociopolitical change and economic uplifting of the Black people of
South Africa. What is even more important is that the Principles were
driven by an ethical and moral imperative, and were voluntarily
implemented by a group of enlight- ened United States multinational
corporations. No grand design or vision is ever perfect. We fall prey to
human follies, limited understanding of the future, and necessary
compromises to seek not what is perfect but what is possible. Thus, any
such effort is subject to criticism from those who seek ideological
purity and those who seek to minimize the impact of change from the
status quo . .