Quotes about Reconciliation

After someone apologizes to you, don't lecture them. Remember that cruel words deeply hurt.

I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

Instead of hating someone, pray for that person. Don't forget to pray for yourself as well, that you may learn how to let go and forgive.

No longer will I judge a man on one meeting; no longer will I fail to call again tomorrow on he who meets me with hate today.

Today, be proactive about forgiving those who have been the source of pain in your life.

You never know when you'll be in need of them you've despised

You go back home and everthing you wished was different is still the same and everthing you wished was the same is different.

You never know when you'll be in need of them you've despised, said Blevins.

If you don't handle the hurt properly, their sin becomes a catalyst for your own.

It is, then, not simply a question of black power or white power, but of how meaningfully to reenfranchise human power. This, as I think Martin Luther King understood, is the real point, the real gift to America, of the struggle of the black people. In accepting the humanity of the black race, the white people will not be giving accommodation to an alien people; it will be receiving into itself half of its own experience, vital and indispensable to it, which it has so far denied at great cost.

The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made a peace here that has joined many who would otherwise have been divided. I am the child of his forgiveness.