Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela quotes
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“Forgiveness does not overlook the deed. It rises above it.”
-- Pumla Gobodo-MadikizelaSource : Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (2013). “A Human Being Died That Night: Forgiving Apartheid's Chief Killer”, p.112, Portobello Books
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“Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change”
-- Pumla Gobodo-MadikizelaSource : Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (2013). “A Human Being Died That Night: Forgiving Apartheid's Chief Killer”, p.124, Portobello Books
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“an act of forgiveness sets the victim apart from the perpetrator, who failed to act humanly towards the victim at the time he committed his crime.”
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“For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the moral challenge. Others of course don't care, and they continue acting with contempt.”
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“But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.”
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“I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.”
Source : Time magazine, November 01, 1963.
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Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1983). “I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology”, Crossroad Publishing Company
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“Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.”
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“Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.”
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Source : Michael A. Stackpole, Aaron Allston (2016). “The X-Wing Series: Star Wars Legends 10-Book Bundle: Rogue Squadron, Wedge's Gamble, The Krytos Trap, The Bacta War, Wraith Squadron ,Iron Fist, Solo Command, Isard's Revenge, Starfighters of Adumar, Mercy Kill”, p.1629, Del Rey
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