Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy and often you have to carry an albatross. And it won't happen until people are able to have a certain level of trust and try to speak to each other, not as caricatures but as people.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

Love is much more demanding than law.

For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through festering. When I ignore a physical wound, it does not go away. No, it festers and goes bad.

The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong.

Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.

Being formed into a nation takes some doing.