1. Forgiveness is not to condone or minimize the awfulness of an atrocity or wrong. It is to recognize its ghastliness but to choose to acknowledge the essential humanity of the perpetrator and to give that perpetrator the possibility of making a new beginning.
Desmond Tutu
Nobel Laureate
South African Archbishop
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2. forgiveness Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar B. Wilde
Irish playwright and novelist
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3. forgiveness The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mohandas Gandhi
Proponent of nonviolent protest for social change
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4. forgiveness The person who seeks revenge should dig two graves.
Chinese Proverb
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5. forgiveness To forgive is to set a prisoner free
and to discover that the prisoner was you.
Lewis B. Smedes
Renowned Christian theologian
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6. forgiveness He who is devoid of the power to forgive
is devoid of the power to love.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights leader
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