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Because forgiveness is like th...

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

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Before Nelson Mandela was arre...

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

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Exclusion is never the way for...

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

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But God can only smile because...

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

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All the United States, it is a...

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

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I've often been a little conce...

I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be aware of race, and I hope that those who will be looking for a vision of the future will be a little more honest, and say race actually does matter.

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Consider what we sometimes do ...

Consider what we sometimes do with our children: We imbue them with this sense, very early on, that they have got to succeed. We are not content that they just do well, they have got to wipe the floor with the opposition.

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We give kudos to people who ha...

We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

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The pressure to succeed has a ...

The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.

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Dream of a world where childre...

Dream of a world where children can laugh and play and not be blown up by a mine they thought was a toy.

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Dream of a world where poverty...

Dream of a world where poverty is history, dream of a world where we don't spend those obscene billions on arms, knowing full well that a tiny fraction of those budgets of death would ensure that children everywhere had clean water to drink, could afford the cheap inoculations against preventable diseases, would have good schools, adequate healthcare and decent homes.

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Life is funny and we are reall...

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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Most poor people I know are pr...

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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I think it is a good exercise ...

I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, 'How would I have wanted to be treated?'

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Without memory, there is no he...

Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.

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We are made for goodness. We a...

We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know. We are made to tell the world that there are no outsiders. All are welcome: black, white, red, yellow, rich, poor, educated, not educated, male, female, gay, straight, all, all, all. We all belong to this family, this human family, God's family.

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If you are neutral in situatio...

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

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Theology reminded me that, how...

Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between the deed and the perpetrator, between the sinner and the sin, to hate and condemn the sin while being filled with compassion for the sinner.

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A person is a person through o...

A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.

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I'm not an optimist; I'm a pri...

I'm not an optimist; I'm a prisoner of hope.

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