After the fighting is done, and even when it's still happening, apologies are often needed for the recounting of bare facts. Sometimes bare facts feel unpatriotic.
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Authentic apology is a tricky thing to pull off in politics, which is why it so seldom occurs. Plausible deniability must be preserved. True contrition has to be displayed. Traitors to the cause must be immediately be jettisoned. Most of all, the goal is to stop the bleeding.
In truth, a leader should either apologize, mean it and do something about it - or not apologize at all.
The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.
More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.
I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.
To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
I made the apologies that needed to be made, and so I didn't feel that Media Matters was a continuing form of saying I was sorry.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
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