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Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relat

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

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In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights. – Desmond Tutu

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If you want peace, you dont talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. – Desmond Tutu

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Gods love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion. – Desmond Tutu

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When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge. – Gerald Jampolsky

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Without forgiveness life is governed by… an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. – Roberto Assagioli

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Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. – E.H. Chapin

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Forgiveness is the final form of love. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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