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In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.

Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

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

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

I am troubled that sometimes in our political discourse we spend all of our time focused on the challenges of the next century rather than on the opportunities of the new century.

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history.