On the Outside Looking in: Colliding with Apartheid and Other Authorities, by Alan Lipman

Resist much, obey little

Alan Lipman encountered this injunction by Walt Whitman as a student in Johannesburg, and has lived by it ever since.Among others, it has governed his relations with authorities ranging from the apartheid regime to the South African Communist Party, and informed his activities as a wartime flyer, freedom fighter, architect, sociologist, and social critic.