Miguel Esteban Hesayne Quotes

The healing of a nation is a slow process that requires patience. It begins with truth telling, the confession of wrong-doing, the genuine respect for forgiveness and the willingness to accept the consequences of one's actions.

Empathy is a necessary step for truth and reconciliation.

In order to properly repent, he who has sinned against the public must make public reparation.

After genocide, justice is impossible …. You cannot put all these people who committed these atrocities to death or in prison.

Let’s open our hearts to [crime] victims and their families and give them something more than vengeance.

We have to support truth and reconciliation and some form of justice.

Healing is a moral thing to do.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love.

I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process.

When I'm speaking of love, when I'm speaking of reversing hate, I'm speaking not only of reconciliation - even I don't use that word - I use another word in Spanish, that's called 'reencuentro' - it's not reconciliation.

If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost as if they buttress and make possible an understanding of each other.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Retaliation is sometimes mercy, mercy to both parties

We shall prepare the coffee of reconciliation through the filter of justice. Through reconciliation, streams of tears will come to our eyes.

Truth commissions also allow perpetrators to be reintegrated into society and not go back into the bush to pick up their guns again.

A nation creates itself not just with what it remembers, but with what it forgets.

We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward cross the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.

Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.

Protesting is good, but healing is better. We need to see America heal.

There is no forgiveness, justice, or healing on any level when hate is involved.

Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow.