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For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we ho

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? – Bell Hooks

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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech. – Bell Hooks

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Many spiritual teachers – in Buddhism, in Islam – have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment. – Bell Hooks

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I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness. – Bell Hooks

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Caught is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present – who should be and who shouldnt be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it wont work. – Harlan Coben

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I realized that its all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba. – Carlos Santana

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Forgiveness is Gods command. – Martin Luther

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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note — torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. – Henry Ward Beecher

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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration. – Sri Aurobindo

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