I can forgive, but I cannot forget,

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Category: forgiveness
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The schools would fail through their silence,

“The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.”

— Simon Wiesenthal

Author: Simon Wiesenthal
Category: forgiveness
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