Reconciliation Quotes - Page 13

• The only feasible solution is a political reconciliation... Mr. President, the time is now to put pressure on the Iraqi government to change. That is our only hope. Sending a contingent of U.S. military personnel, no matter how small, will be counterproductive to that goal. Our presence will send the wrong message to the Malaki government that we will support them despite what they have done and continue to do to destroy the country by alienating the minority populations of Iraq.

  Mike Coffman

  Country, Military, Government

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• I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling and reconciliation I need privacy--to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.

  Virginia Woolf

  Cat, Order, Waiting

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• Is he Catholic?" her grandmother asked on the way out. He's a drug dealer -- so if he is religious, he's got incredible powers of reconciliation. "He looks like a good boy," her vovo said over her shoulder. "A good Catholic boy." And that was that -- for now.

  J.R. Ward

  Religious, Grandmother, Boys

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• Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and reconciliation and the legacy of slavery is that it was such a dominant part of our history.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Legacy, Needs, Slavery

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I see it as my duty to take a stand for the Iraqi people, for democracy, freedom and reconciliation.

  Ayad Allawi

  People, Democracy, Duty

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given us as much terror as we can take. We have paid a high enough price for the nostalgia of the whole and the one, for the reconciliation of the concept and the sensible, of the transparent and the communicable experience. Under the general demand for slackening and for appeasement, we can hear the mutterings of the desire for a return of terror, for the realization of the fantasy to seize reality. The answer is: Let us wage a war on totality; let us be witnesses to the unpresentable; let us activate the differences.

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  War, Reality, Differences

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• When I'm speaking of love, when I'm speaking of reversing hate, I'm speaking not only of reconciliation - even I don't use that word - I use another word in Spanish, that's called 'reencuentro' - it's not reconciliation.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Hate, Use

  "Chile’s New President Outlines Goals". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. January 25, 2006.

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• Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy.

  Charles Kimball

  Empathy, Tolerance, Source

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• The temple of silence and reconciliation.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Silence, Temples, Graves

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• My heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization Less mindless partisanship, which at times sounds almost hateful to the ear of Americans. How we conduct ourselves and how we treat you, Judge Roberts, can be a great start toward reconciliation in our country.

  Tom Coburn

  Country, Heart, Judging

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• The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation.

  Hermann Hesse

  War, Mind, Annihilation

  Hermann Hesse (2007). “Siddhartha”, Fine Communications

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• We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living again. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it--to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, War, Adversity

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• We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible.

  Gloria Steinem

  Peace, Voyages, Impossible

  "Women activists cross DMZ between North and South Korea" by Jethro Mullen, Kathy Novak, www.cnn.com. May 24, 2015.

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• When we seek reconciliation with our enemies, it is commonly out of a desire to better our own condition, a being harassed and tired out with a state of war, and a fear of some ill accident which we are willing to prevent.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  War, Tired, Enemy

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• Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it is a miscarriage of democratic procedure.

  J. William Fulbright

  Miscarriage, Agreement, Differences

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• The only reason Christ submitted himself to the horrendous experience of bearing the sins of the entire world is because his death provided the only way for reconciliation with God.

  Robert Jeffress

  World, Way, Sin

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but an idea becomes false and impotent when it seeks reconciliation, at cut-rate prices, with other ideas.

  Susan Sontag

  Cutting, Ideas, Creative

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• Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.

  William Safire

  Fighting, Light, Years

  "Newswords" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. July 09, 2009.

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• The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.

  Kent Conrad

  Government, Issues, Would Be

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• There were people in the South who were ardently opposed to slavery. And maybe, if we get into truth and reconciliation, those will be the people we want to name schools and streets after.

  Bryan Stevenson

  School, Names, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My personal attitude is this: I will stand for revival, unity and prayer; I will labor to restore healing and reconciliation between God's people. Yet, if all God truly wanted was to raise up one fully yielded son--a son who would refuse to be offended, refuse to react, refuse to harbor unforgiveness regardless of those who slander and persecute--I have determined to be that person. My primary goal in all things is not revival, but to bring pleasure to Christ.

  Francis Frangipane

  Prayer, Attitude, Healing

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• Although my own view is that bin Laden does not want to stage an attack that looks like 9/11 in Europe simply because he does not want to be the agent of Trans-Atlantic reconciliation. I think they will continue to do attacks like Madrid, the British attack, the subway systems, because those attacks have proven that the European response so far has been to blame the domestic government, not to side with the Americans.

  Michael Scheuer

  Thinking, Government, Views

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Christianity alone teaches that our only way for reconciliation with God is by his grace that is received through faith.

  Robert Jeffress

  Grace, Way, Christianity

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.

  Paul David Tripp

  People, Church, And Love

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• Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

  Desmond Tutu

  Revenge, Military, Men

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