Quotes About Reparation

To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.

retribution [sic] for the wrongs I have committed.

Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

Undoing a wrong is greater than doing a right.

We diminish ourselves too," she said at last, "when feeling sorry for someone who has done a dreadful wrong leads us to excuse him and simply hope he will mend his ways. Feeling sorry for someone but acknowledging that justice ought nevertheless to be done is more appropriate to moral beings.

I wondered if DSS had anything like Step 9, where you eventually have to apologize to all the kids you've screwed over.

We Belgians made slaves of them and cut off their hands in the rubber plantations. Now you Americans have them for a slave wage in the mines and let them cut off their own hands. And you, my friend, are stuck with the job of trying to make amens.

The history of colonization, imperialism is a record of betrayal, of lies, and deceits. The demand for that which is real is a demand for reparation, for transformation. In resistance, the exploited, the oppressed work to expose the false reality - to reclaim and recover ourselves.

They focused on reparation to the victim rather than punishment or fines levied on the perpetrator, and common consent of the people was necessary for new laws and elections (or rejections) of leaders.

Le temps libre est principalement consacré à se préparer pour le travail, à revenir du travail, à surmonter la fatigue du travail. Le temps libre est un euphémisme qui désigne la manière dont la main-d'oeuvre se transporte à ses propres frais pour se rendre au labeur et assume l'essentiel de sa propre maintenance et de ses réparations.

How about you keep the tens of millions you nearly prevented me from earning for you last year and we call it even?

Nature compensates for its mistakes.

What is a just punishment for enslaving my entire race?

I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

We have never owned, as a country, the damage done not only to people who were enslaved but to future generations in which they were treated. I think that has damaged the future of many African-American people. Some have risen above it quite nobly, but it has impacted generations, and we have to be able to own that as part of the past.

La verdadera justicia consiste en pagar sólo una vez por cada error. Lo que es verdaderamente injusto es pagar varias veces por el mismo error.

If you brought harm, no matter the reason, you had to set it right as best you could.

Apologizing is like spring cleaning.

The United States was founded on the triple sin of slavery, genocide, and land theft.

Don't you think I'm owed those lives?

The bottom line is this: As we get clean, we have to get fair. More than that, as we get clean, we can begin to redress the founding crimes of our nations: Land theft, genocide, slavery.

You simply mean that you flirted outrageously with him, poor old chap, and then repented, and to make reparation, married him, though you tortured yourself to death by doing it.