Taito Waradi Quotes

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

There is always room for understanding towards those who see the old ways crumbling. And today I say simply this: It must come. It is right that it should come. And when it does, you will find that a burden has been lifted from your shoulders too.

We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just.

Vengeance is not the point: change is.

I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

I am not dead inside. I still care about right and wrong.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let's seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

What we want is a moral revolution, not one that people associate with street riots and the disorganization of life. A transformation of attitudes that will introduce normal, moral order in the functioning of the state. An order whereby honesty is a positive value, and dishonesty a negative one.

Redemption should be part of politics, because it’s part of the human pageant.

You can't build a new society by violating the rights of others.

Forgiveness is a basis for moral and ethical behavior.

We must liberate our concepts of justice, our laws and legal institutions from the bonds which hold a tight grip on us although they are incompatible with the needs of our century.

Peace lovers today would give up all justice.

Things that used to be illicit are not illicit today. Licit products of yesterday, may be illicit today.

… morality ends where the gun begins.

It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be lost without him.

Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.

We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.

Can we all get along?

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.