Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.
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.
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?
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.
Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate to be passed. It is primarily intended for deficit and mandatory spending reduction.
The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.
The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.