"It is only a moral voice if you have real credibility," she said in an interview.

His moral voice and inspired leadership will always be remembered.

But if Britain spoke with a moral voice, it had to put its own house in order.

He hated to think what people during previous centuries might have become without religion's comforts and moral voice.

"The labor movement was strongest when we were the moral voice in the community," Ms. Dean said.

But they did, in their own ways, silence their internal moral voices.

The church has much more to offer the world as a moral voice than as a political one.

"It is putting extra pressure, because he's one of the only moral voices left in the world with credibility," he said.

Through these they seem to position themselves a moral voice or authority for Libya rather than as an entity with explicit political power.

It has no moral voice when it comes to its own.