Apologies are real, genuine, when they are sincere, and take unambiguous full responsibility for words and actions, so that their victim can see, and appreciate, that the person who wronged them cares about wronging them. Only then, when the victim has reason to credit their abuser with some decency, can they gather enough respect for them to get some comfort from the apology.
Category: Politics
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The Most Basic Fact About Politics is Slack
Bravery is hard. Harder when things are scary. And now scarier than ever and harder than ever!
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The Answer to His Question Will Determine Our Fate!
Dietrich Bonhoeffer:
“We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds; we have been drenched by many storms; we have learnt the arts of equivocation and pretence; experience has made us suspicious of others and kept us from being truthful and open; intolerable conflicts have worn us down and even made us cynical.
What we shall need is not geniuses, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, and straightforward men.
Will our inward power of resistance be strong enough, and our honesty with ourselves remorseless enough, for us to find our way back to simplicity and straightforwardness?”
__________Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison
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