"When will we learn that
human beings are of infinite value because they have been created in the image
of God, and that it is a blasphemy to treat them as if they were less than this
and to do so ultimately recoils on those who do this? In dehumanising others,
they are themselves dehumanised. Perhaps oppression dehumanises the oppressors
as much as, if not more than, the oppressed. They need each other to become
truly free, to become human. We can be human only in fellowship, in community,
in koinonia, in peace."
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
