Having looked the beast of the past in the eye, having asked and received forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past — not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us. Let us move into the glorious future of a new kind of society where people count, not because of biological irrelevancies or other extraneous attributes, but because they are persons of infinite worth created in the image of God.

Desmond Tutu, Learning to Pray by Wayne Muller