Showing posts with label Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela. Show all posts
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Remembering

RIC_2288-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_2288-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     If memory is kept alive in order to cultivate old hatreds and
     resentments, it is likely to culminate in vengeance, and in a
     repetition of violence. But if memory is kept alive in order to
     transcend hateful emotions, then remembering can be a healing.

       Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela,
       A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid