Quotes About Reconciliation

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

We forgive but not forgotten

To make peace with an enemy one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes one's partner.

We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success. We must therefore act together as a united people, for national reconciliation, for nation building, for the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all.

But as I got closer to the car that would take me away, I realized that when I went through that gate, if I still hated them, they would still have me. I wanted to be free. And so I let it go.

and when we did come out [of prison], my children said, "We thought we had a father and one day he'd come back. But to our dismay, our father came back and he left us alone because he has now become the father of the nation.

To make peace with an enemy, one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes your partner.

Para firmar la paz con un enemigo es necesario trabajar con él.

O velho reapareceu, cinco minutos depois, já recuperado. Pigarreou: — Vamos pôr uma pedra em cima disso, que é mais negócio. O que passou passou. Está na hora de dormir, pessoal. Então

what we have done is unacceptable.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

Forgiveness is, in fact, experiencing in imagination the revised version of the day, experiencing in imagination what you wish you had experienced in the flesh.

It is like the parable Jesus told of the man who was forgiven a huge debt that he could never repay, but then he went out and beat up another man who owed him practically nothing. Once we've been forgiven, somehow we forget that the only difference between 'us' and 'them' is grace.

it would be good to reconcile all these antagonisms.

You've still time to go back and right all the mistakes you've made.

In their family, even the most nuclear of disputes remained under wraps until eventually it dissipated, seemingly for the simple reason that no one was prepared to stoke the fire.

We had never really talked to each other after I was nine years old. She had been busy and I had been resentful. I had grown up independent, and then she had not known how to find me. I wasn't even sure she wanted to, or what she might find if she did.

Contempt for others, like a dog driven from the hall, always found its way back.

Their friendship grew back, like tree bark growing over a wound. But they did not fight anyone.

I wanted to know about the woman who thought this was something I had done, but I wasn't in any particular hurry. Let her come to me.

Poetry rescues things by reconciling matter and spirit in the metaphor.