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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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I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world thats becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. – Bell Hooks

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Fear
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Im so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer. – Bell Hooks

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Women
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I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health. – Bell Hooks

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I have to ask Allahs forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and its not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred. – Abdul Qadeer Khan

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Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. – Scott Adams

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One forgives to the degree that one loves. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Forgiveness is the final form of love. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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