Forgiveness plays a powerful role here because it paves the way for reconciliation and love. In the movement, we did not seek retaliation or revenge against our attackers, because we recognized that we could not harm them without harming ourselves. We saw them as wayward brothers and sisters who had lost their way. We learned to visualize them as innocent babies. No child is born in hate. All children are born in hope, love, and innocence. It is a troubled world that teaches these vicious values. We saw that our attackers were also victims, victims of a negative indoctrination that taught the
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