Quotes About Reconciliation

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

Wherever I've been, I've left people who joined Hizb ut-Tahrir. I have to make amends. What I did was damaging to British society and the world at large.

People have to render judgment. In my case, I've said upfront openly, I've made mistakes at times. I've had to go to God for forgiveness. I've had to seek reconciliation. But I'm also a 68-year-old grandfather, and I think people have to measure who I am now and whether I'm a person they can trust.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy - the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities - which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.

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

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

How can we bridge the gap between... African-American males and white cops?

Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.

One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.

Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.

When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.

I think at some point I would like to meet my dad. He's in prison in the U.S. for life, so it's about figuring out where he is stationed and making time to see him.

It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace.

I never want any problems with anybody in this world.

I here ask pardon of all my compatriots for everything of which I have been guilty towards them. I know that, by my ill-considered and immature works, I have brought distress to many and that I have even provoked others to attack me openly and, in general, have produced displeasure in many.

After the first couple of years of on 'Black-ish,' my wife and I actually broke up. We got back together, and it was this really, really difficult time for me.

One thing about when I came back into Dinosaur that was really cool was that pretty much anybody that J. was working with who had a long-term relationship with J. were people I really liked and that I actually may have already known.

I got sentenced in 1991. It's 2020, and my family and I have not discussed what happened to me.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Only by addressing the root causes of conflict and disputes can we hope to find lasting peace in a just and equitable world.

I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.