Quotes About Reconciliation

Empathy is a necessary step for truth and reconciliation.

Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.

If you love your enemy, that means you want your enemy to be happy.

[In Bolivia] We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together again.

I'm happy if my book makes you want to kiss your family... if we can reconcile with each other no matter where we are on the globe.

I can direct dial today a man my parents warred with. They wanted to kill him, I want to sell software to him.

I didn't want to see you." "They told me." "I was afraid that I'd still love you." "I hoped that you would.

I still love him. And here's the worst part. I want him back. - Ree

I'll do whatever you want, whatever you need. Anything. Just take me back.

Sometimes I want to be on 'The Real Housewives of New York.' I want to remind them to figure out how to get along and support each other.

God wants you to find your way back to Him, and the Savior is the way.

And what if I don't want forgiveness?

"I don't like this," he said. "I don't like knowing you can't forgive me, Claire. Please, I said I was sorry, what do you want me to do? Beg? I will. I'll get on my knees right here if you want."

Do i really want him dead? What i want... what i want is to have him back.

The important thing is Burma needs to end the civil war and for this to happen both sides must want to end the war.

Whoa!!! I heard I offended one of my all time favorite artists Ray Price by my statement "Nobody wants to listen to their grandpas music.

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.

Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway. Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious

In Germany people want to make up to the Jews for what happened by idealizing them.

Reconciliation does not demand that one side surrender to the other. The simple, mutual recognition that mistakes were made is in itself a closing of the divide.

Sometimes,' Brys ventured, 'when nothing can be shared except regret, then regret must serve as the place to begin. Reconciliation does not demand that one side surrender to the other. The simple, mutual recognition that mistakes were made is in itself a closing of the divide.

In all that is to come, think on forgiveness. Hold to it, but know too that it must not always be freely given. Sometimes forgiveness must be denied.

He would have liked to call the man he had been a stranger now, but the world had a way of spinning unnoticed, until what he'd thought he'd turned his back on suddenly faced him again.

We are all worthwhile, sir, once we assume the burden of forgiveness and the effort of absolution.