Reconciliation Quotes - Page 10

• Asking for forgiveness from others in a scriptural manner involves acknowledging that you have sinned against them and that you desire mercy and pardon (not to be given what you deserve). Asking for forgiveness is vital for reconciliation and may lead to the difference in the relationship.

  John C. Broger

  Forgiveness, Differences, Desire

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• Reconciliation is a long process. We don't have the kind of race clashes that we thought would happen. What we have is xenophobia, and it's very distressing. But maybe you ought to be lenient with us. We've been free for just 12 years.

  Desmond Tutu

  Xenophobia, Race, Years

  Interview with Sonja Steptoe, content.time.com. October 17, 2006.

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• After the war, the Austrians just denied their role in it all. They didn't teach it in school. But since 1990 they have openly acknowledged their role in the Holocaust and I feel more comfortable in Austria. I feel a sort of reconciliation.

  Eric Kandel

  War, School, Holocaust

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I look upon India-U.S. nuclear cooperation as an act of historic reconciliation.

  Manmohan Singh

  India, Nuclear, Looks

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• I live in a country where we put children in shackles and in concrete cells. Working together, with righteousness and hope, we can create a country that is about reverence and reconciliation, not a world of shackles and concrete cells.

  Lateefah Simon

  Country, Children, Cells

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• Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not construction; the kindling of passions, not their pacification; the accumulation of hate and destruction, not the reconciliation of the contending parties; and it has reduced men and parties to the difficult task of building slowly after sad experience on the ruins of discord.

  Pope Pius XII

  Hate, Party, Passion

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• Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the two. Shankaracharya's teaching shows the influence of Buddhism. His disciples perverted his teaching and carried it to such an extreme point that some of the later reformers were right in calling the Acharya's followers "crypto-buddhists".

  Swami Vivekananda

  Buddhist, Teaching, Buddhism

  Swami Vivekananda (1951). “Complete Works”

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• Reconciliation has taken place here in Rwanda and was successful because Rwandans reconciled themselves internally. If the tribunal had taken place in Rwanda, it might have helped. People could have watched justice being done.

  Paul Kagame

  Taken, Successful, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always keep in mind the interests of others. We cannot destroy our neighours! We cannot ignore their interests!

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Spirit, Conflict

  "Open Heart: Practising Compassion in Everyday Life". Book by Dalai Lama, p.13, September 5, 2002.

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• What we experience in Colombia is fratricide, we fight ourselves and it demonstrates the priority of hatred over peace and reconciliation.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Fighting, Priorities, Hatred

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Government, Years, Design

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.

  David Oyelowo

  Believe, Individual, Repentance

  Source: decentfilms.com

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• I truly believe slavery is why, as a by-product, we still have a disproportionate amount of black men incarcerated in the USA. It is an extension of that legacy, and that's not going to start to diminish until black people have a new sense of themselves that isn't tied to slavery and feeling inferior. I think the church can be instrumental in that, in terms of repentance, reconciliation and just being more embracing of each other - not just on Sunday, but in life generally.

  David Oyelowo

  Believe, Sunday, Men

  Source: decentfilms.com

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• Egypt is indeed deeply divided. Without reconciliation we have no future. The Muslim Brotherhood is an important part of our society. I very much hope that it will participate in the next round of talks. I will be the first to protest if the imperative of fairness isn't adhered to.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Egypt, Brotherhood, Important

  "Interview with Egyptian Politician ElBaradei 'This Was Not a Coup'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. July 8, 2013.

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• Lord Rees-Mogg argues that the time for reconciliation in Tibet is passing with the looming departure of its spiritual leader.

  William Rees-Mogg

  Spiritual, Leader, Departure

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• In speaking powerfully and eloquently for mercy and reconciliation to people divided by old hatreds and persecuted by abuse of power, the Holy Father was a beacon of light not just for Catholics, but for all people.

  William J. Clinton

  Father, Light, People

  "U.S. leaders pay tribute to pope", www.cnn.com. April 2, 2005.

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• The reconciliation is not based on the fact that one of the characters opens his eyes and says, "O brother! O sister! How terrible I was! How right and wonderful you were! Please forgive me! Let's hug and love each other from now until the rest of eternity!" This is not the kind of reconciliation I write about; I write about sad, sober, sometimes heart-breaking compromises.

  Amos Oz

  Brother, Writing, Heart

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• It's the reason why I am always interested in engaging in people who are pushing us and pushing against the status quo. But having been an activist, the only thing that I'm always encouraging activists to do is, once you have raised the issue, and even through controversial means, you have to come behind it with an agenda and the possibility of reconciliation if power meets your demands.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Issues, People

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I really work for racial reconciliation in many ways. And you can judge me by my writings.

  David Duke

  Writing, Judging, Way

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• In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Encouragement, Distance, Heart

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Let's just call what happened in the eighties the reclamation of motherhood . . . by women I knew and loved, hard-driving women with major careers who were after not just babies per se or motherhood per se, but after a reconciliation with their memories of their own mothers. So having a baby wasn't just having a baby. It became a major healing.

  Anne Taylor Fleming

  Mother, Baby, Memories

  Anne Taylor Fleming (1995). “Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey”, Fawcett

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• There is a kind of sense of truth and reconciliation that is non-formalized, but it's understood and accepted. Haitians are Haitians and there is an inherent loyalty that forgives an awful lot.

  Sean Penn

  Loyalty, Forgiving, Awful

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The rebels will be thinking about retaliation, what we have to do is stop; stop and transform it into a spiral of forgiveness and reconciliation.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Forgiveness, Thinking, Rebel

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• Reconciliation will not work if it puts a higher value on symbolic gestures and overblown promises rather than the practical needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in areas like health, housing, education and employment.

  Warren Mundine

  Promise, Needs, Employment

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.

  Jan Smuts

  Writing, Quarrels

  Jan Christian Smuts (1952). “Jan Christian Smuts: a biography”, William Morrow & Company

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