Quotes About Reconciliation

The problem of the 1850s--how (for Southerners) to preserve slavery without destroying the Union--was a practical problem specific to a particular time and place. But the moral problem of how to reconcile irreconcilable values is a timeless one that, sooner or later, confronts us all.

Nothing in John R. Rice's life or career suggests that he would ever condone or support the racist mob violence that had been on display in Sherman in 1930. But his failure to criticize the Sherman Riot or to call for racial reconciliation or repentance for racial crimes can be attributed to some basic assumptions he must have made.

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.

He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast.

I learned a long time ago that you need to bury the hatchet. No need to hold grudges. That only weighs you down.

In the grave should be buried the prejudices and passions born of conflict. Charity should hold the scales in which are weighed the deeds of men.

The world now knows that Steve Perry is welcome to come and sing with us anytime he wants.

I imagine there are a lot of people who will never be able to accept me because they feel I've let them down, but I am a different person, and most people have welcomed me back in that spirit.

Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used.

In 1996, Republicans used reconciliation to pass major legislation that ended six decades of welfare policy.

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self-esteem and well-being.

We know that we dearly love our family. They now consider us betrayers, and we are cut off from their lives, but we know they are well-intentioned. We will never not love them.

Those who say that the West and Islam are eternally irreconcilable have more in common with the Islam extremists than they might like to think, for it's the very same argument of course advanced by Al-Qaida. And they do have it wrong. We need to work with mainstream Islam.

You pray for your enemies.

Acumen Fund is my prayer in response to genocide and what happened in Rwanda.

My self healing lies in praying for those who have harmed me.

We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.

Belfast is a city which, while not forgetting its past, is living comfortably with its present and looking forward to its future.

To all my political opponents, all and sundry, not only the presidential bets, I would like to offer my hand to friendship.

I was never honest. My father died, and I had never said to him, 'I'm gay.' I knew what I was, but I had to pretend not to be that to avoid the beatings.

I have no animosity toward Al Davis or John Madden.

I love my children dearly, they are my blood. I want nothing more to have them back in my life.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.