"You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere."
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"There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at coaxing the best out of others."
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"Sometimes you wish you could keep quiet. It's the kind of thing you heard the prophet Jeremiah complain of where he says, "You know God, I didn't want to be a prophet and you made me speak words of condemnation against a people I love deeply. Your word is like a fire burning in my breast.""
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"Forgiving is good for your health."
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"Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days."
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"Some of us might look like accidents, but I mean none of us is in fact an accident."
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"I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, "How would I have wanted to be treated?""
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"I would hope that wherever I was I would be me. I have been influenced by some wonderful people who showed me that there is an integral relationship between faith and life at home. Evil is evil, repression is repression anywhere. And if it is not consistent with what one believes is God's will, then I would hope that one would be able to witness it, and there are wonderful people who do so in very great risks to themselves."
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"Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves."
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"Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun."
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"Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run."
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"All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of."
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"People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other."
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"God has been incredible in creating us to be persons."
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"You ask when is it that you can say yes we have had enough. It is enough revenge and I think now we have restored the equilibrium. It never happens!"
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"Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences."
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"I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls."
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"God loved me before I actually was."
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"People in apartheid South Africa can tell you that God cursed black people when they cursed Him. And so the hermetic people were condemned to be drawers of water and of wood."
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"People will use their religion to justify virtually anything."
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