"One day we'll wake up and discover we are family."
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"I'm not an optimist. I'm a prisoner of hope."
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"I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time. . . I have also seen incredible forgiveness and compassion. Yes, each of us has the capacity for great evil. But for every act of evil there are a dozen acts of goodness in our world that go unnoticed. It is only because we believe that people should be good that we despair when they are not. Indeed, if people condoned the evil, we would be justified in losing hope. But most of the world does not. We know that we are meant for better."
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"I say somewhat facetiously, "I'm so glad I'm not God." Can you imagine being God and looking at Syria and saying: "These are my children. Look at what they're doing to each other.""
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"Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy and often you have to carry an albatross. And it won't happen until people are able to have a certain level of trust and try to speak to each other, not as caricatures but as people."
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"Restorative justice says "No, the offense affected a relationship" and what you are seeking for is to restore the relationship, to heal the relationship."
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"Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word."
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"I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion."
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"One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom."
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"Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew."
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"The way God operates is on the basis of love."
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"When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil."
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"There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep."
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"I think we have got to put fire under the feet of all kinds of people."
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"South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world."
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"We can arrive at better solutions to any problem or pain together, than we can by ourselves. The beauty of the modern age is that you are able to source answers, and sometimes the genius is in the combination of ideas and energy that does not reside in only one person."
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"There can be no healing without truth."
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"Every single one of us can do something, however small, to make a difference."
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"Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life."
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"Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment."
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