We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
Desmond TutuI mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
Desmond TutuTrue forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even vicariously for those who cannot speak for themselves any longer. We have to accept that we do what we do for generations past, present and yet to come. That is what makes a community a community or a people a people-for better or for worse.
Desmond TutuForgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians.
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