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Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action. -- Malcolm Fraser
Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice. -- Corazon Aquino
Reconciliation is to understand both sides; to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side. -- Nhat Hanh
Reconciliation is more beautiful than victory. -- Violeta Chamorro
Reconciliation always brings a springtime to the soul. -- Brother Roger
Reconciliation is the fastest way to change your life. -- Mark Hart
History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels. -- Jan Smuts
I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone. -- Gerald R. Ford
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat. -- Jimmy Carter
Reconciliation takes time. Sometimes many decades, as the example of Europe shows. It is hard work. -- Paul Kagame
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions. -- Nhat Hanh
Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted? -- N. K. Jemisin
Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation. -- Yitzhak Rabin
Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians. -- Malcolm Fraser
Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction. -- Kent Conrad
Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago? -- Horst Koehler
Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago? -- Horst Koehler
In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again. -- Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Reconciliation will not work if it puts a higher value on symbolic gestures and overblown promises rather than the practical needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in areas like health, housing, education and employment. -- Warren Mundine
Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate to be passed. It is primarily intended for deficit and mandatory spending reduction -- Jeff Miller
Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to agree about everything. Reconciliation focuses on the relationship, while resolution focuses on the problem. When we focus on reconciliation, the problem loses significance and often becomes irrelevant. -- Rick Warren
The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services. -- Bayard Rustin
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Reconciliation is a long process. We don't have the kind of race clashes that we thought would happen. What we have is xenophobia, and it's very distressing. But maybe you ought to be lenient with us. We've been free for just 12 years. -- Desmond Tutu
Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were revered even during their lifetime; but both made frequent use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation. -- Donald Wuerl
Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial. -- Malcolm Fraser
The coming of Christ means a denial of what we thought we were. It means destroying the white devil in us. Reconciliation to God means that white people are prepared to deny themselves (whiteness), take up the cross (blackness) and follow Christ (black ghetto). -- James H. Cone
Reconciliation is a deep practice that we can do with our listening and our mindful speech. To reconcile means to bring peace and happiness to nations, people, and members of our family.... In order to reconcile, you have to possess the art of deep listening. -- Nhat Hanh
Reconciliation is what takes place, of course, at higher levels. President Karzai has been very clear about the red lines for reconciliation, accept the constitution, lay down their weapons, cut their ties with al Qaeda and essentially become productive or at least participating members of society in that regard. -- David Petraeus
The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce. -- Miguel de Cervantes
To celebrate the sacrament of reconciliation means to be wrapped in a warm embrace. -- Pope Francis
In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting. -- Stefan Zweig
Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment. -- Orville Dewey
Do I take the Gospel message of reconciliation and love into the places where I live and work? -- Pope Francis
It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured. -- Charles Caleb Colton
In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue and peace is spoken. -- Pope Francis
It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will. -- Owen Feltham
May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace. -- Pope Francis
When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction! -- Kent Conrad
The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil. -- Jean Baudrillard
The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West . . . But Christ came to bring about reconciliation and peace. -- Billy Graham
The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another. -- M. Scott Peck
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat -- Jimmy Carter
Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem. -- C. S. Lewis
How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light! -- Orville Dewey
The true essence of reconciliation is more than making friends with nonindigenous people. Our motto is united Australia, one that respects the land and the heritage of its indigenous peoples and provides justice and equity for all. I think reconciliation is about changing the structures that govern us and trying to influence opinion leaders in whatever way we can. -- Jackie Huggins
If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation. -- Mason Cooley
The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration. -- Edwin Louis Cole
The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning. -- Tariq Ramadan
I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness. -- Park Geun-hye
In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations. -- Janine di Giovanni
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth. -- Paddy Ashdown
Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation. -- Jane Goodall
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences. -- Theodor Adorno
Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families. -- Philip Yancey
If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism. -- Nhat Hanh
The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do. -- Shane Claiborne
Today is a great day, not only of healing and reconciliation, but also coming together. I'm so glad the whole Little Rock Nine was alive and here to see this. -- Winthrop Rockefeller
We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation. -- Roy Barnes
Christians believe that there will be a Judgment Day at the end. And it is my belief that on that day justice will be done and there will be a reconciliation between those who have profoundly injured one another takes place. -- Miroslav Volf
We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart. -- Romeo LeBlanc
I think reconciliation is Obama's goal - but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even worse, now the Republicans feel they can keep pushing and he will keep giving. They have not seen a stiff resistance on his part. -- Jesse Jackson
As a follower of Jesus, I am called to work for justice and reconciliation, and to be an advocate for those who cannot speak for themselves. I plan to focus my future work on human rights and religious freedom - both domestic and international - as well as matters of the culture and the American family. -- Frank Wolf
Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation. -- Wole Soyinka
Remembrance is the secret of reconciliation. -- Rudolf Scharping
Forgiveness is mandatory; reconciliation is optional. -- Lysa TerKeurst
Humor is the foundation of reconciliation. -- Saint Francis de Sales
The temple of silence and reconciliation. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Be ready for reconciliation after quarrels. -- Cleobulus
I am against any reconciliation with Israel. -- Hassan Nasrallah
The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes ... -- Carolyn Heilbrun
The Israelis wanted to sabotage the Palestinian - Palestinian reconciliation. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past. -- Nelson Mandela
Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences. -- Desmond Tutu
If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth. -- Timothy B. Tyson
Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy. -- Charles Kimball
Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it. -- Francine du Plessix Gray
One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship! -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I look upon India-U.S. nuclear cooperation as an act of historic reconciliation. -- Manmohan Singh
Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation. -- Chris Cleave
One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship! -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation. -- Donald Tusk
Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death. -- Jean de la Bruyere
The term "?reconciliation' describes the atonement as springing from the initiative of God Himself. -- Geerhardus Vos
You can gain reconciliation from your enemies, but you can only gain peace from yourself. -- Rubin Carter
We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles. -- Desmond Tutu
I believe firmly in reconciliation among Vietnamese to avoid unnecessary shedding of the blood of Vietnamese. -- Duong Van Minh
In 2001, Republicans used reconciliation to pass President Bush's $1.35 trillion tax cut that mainly benefited the wealthy. -- Bernie Sanders
RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead. -- Ambrose Bierce
A more stable relationship between Poland and Russia based on reconciliation might revive the reunification of Europe. -- Ivan Krastev
History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation -- William J. Clinton
I really work for racial reconciliation in many ways. And you can judge me by my writings. -- David Duke
Well, now that you set him on fire, I'm sure we're well on the path to reconciliation. -- Alexandra Adornetto
Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses -- Juhani Pallasmaa
I believe that in the ideal school we have the reconciliation of the individualistic and the institutional ideals. -- John Dewey
The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation. -- Hermann Hesse
Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification. -- Kim Jong Il
Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body. -- Carol P. Christ
The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens. -- Miroslav Volf
The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty. -- Robert Hugh Benson
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later. -- Alice Munro
My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history. -- Harry Reid
Cherish your tears and their reasons, they will be the light of your smile, your inner peace and reconciliation. -- Tariq Ramadan
Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it. -- Stephen Leacock
I see it as my duty to take a stand for the Iraqi people, for democracy, freedom and reconciliation. -- Ayad Allawi
Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year. -- William Safire
I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance. -- David Oyelowo
Lord Rees-Mogg argues that the time for reconciliation in Tibet is passing with the looming departure of its spiritual leader. -- William Rees-Mogg
Together we will act to bring about national reconciliation, secure Malaysia's economic future, and build a stronger, more harmonious society. -- Najib Razak
Christianity alone teaches that our only way for reconciliation with God is by his grace that is received through faith. -- Robert Jeffress
The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death. -- Dick Durbin
All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought. -- Kenneth L. Woodward
I remain convinced that most human conflicts can be solved through genuine dialogue conducted with a spirit of openness and reconciliation. -- Dalai Lama
It is then he realises that certain things loom larger than forgiveness and reconciliation: memory, for one, and history, bloody history. -- Omar Musa
Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'. -- Shane Claiborne
Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life. -- Mary Parker Follett

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