For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the moral challenge. Others of course don't care, and they continue acting with contempt. — Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Copy Share Image
Forgiveness does not overlook the deed. It rises above it. — Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Copy Share Image
“A genuine apology focuses on the feelings of the other rather than on how the one who is apologizing is going to benefit in the end. It seeks to acknowledge full responsibility for an act, and does not use self-serving language to justify the behavior of the person asking forgiveness. A sincere apology does not seek to erase what was… — Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Copy Share
For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the moral challenge.… — Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Copy Share Image
“That one is not confronted with the choices de Kock could have or could not have made, that one was not a member of… — Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Copy Share Image
Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change — Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Copy Share Image
an act of forgiveness sets the victim apart from the perpetrator, who failed to act humanly towards the victim at the time he committed… — Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Copy Share Image
