A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or beha… - Desmond Tutu

None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are.

I would like to share with you two simple truths: there is nothing that cannot be forgiven, and there is no one un-deserving of forgiveness.

So too I would say we South Africans will survive and prevail only together, black and white bound together by circumstance and history as we strive to claw our way out of the morass that was apartheid racism. Up and out together, black and white together. Neither group on its own could or would make it. God had bound us, manacled us, together. In a way it was to live out what Martin Luther King, Jr., had said, “Unless we learn to live together as brothers [and sisters]

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.