Afeni Shakur Quotes

What we need is anger management right now …. The reaction right now is just anger. We tried to get even. But we shouldn’t try to get even—we should try and reconcile.

Vengeance is not the point: change is.

Forgiveness is the most effective way of dealing with arguments; altruism and forgiveness bring humanity together so that no conflict, however serious, will go beyond the bounds of what is truly human.

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

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

I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

The world has already been saved from war. The question is how Christians can and should live in a world of war as a people who believe that war has been abolished.

The thing that started the peace movement in Ireland was anger - my anger. It wasn't anger; it was fury.

Justice cannot take root amid rage.

Forgiveness is better than revenge

We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.

Empathy is a necessary step for truth and reconciliation.

Never let anyone go home feeling bad at night. You can bark away during the day, but you must always put that right.

Create your own constituency of the infuriated.

Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.

The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.

Let us ask Mary to help us respond to violence, to conflict and to war, with the power of dialogue, reconciliation and love. She is our mother: may she help us to find peace; all of us are her children!

We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...

Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

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.