Education is the most powerful weapon which we can use to change the world…
– Nelson Mandela
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Dec11
R.I.P. – Requiescat In Pace
“We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?”
Nelson Mandela
18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013
Oct21
Sharing amnesty
This is a story of humanity. This is a story of sorrow and fortitude. This is a real story, a story that should let us spend few minutes thinking about the powerful of humankind: the ability of going over, being able to declare amnesty towards people who have done such atrocities. It happened in South Africa. It was the 1996. After the abolition of apartheid the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was assembled in order to bear witness to all the crimes and injustices perpetrated during the apartheid. I first knew about this story thanks to the movie “In my country”. I was shocked by the greatness of south african population, who was able to listen to the witnesses on all the crimes, from rapes to killings. Instead of reacting with revenge, south africans understood the necessity of reconcilation, because “Never, never, and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.” (Nelson Mandela). Here to you a beautiful example of braveness and tollerance, strongness and wisdom. A teaching for all of us, to understand that a different way is possible and violence and cruelty are not the only methods. A teaching to remember us to face the situations, whatever the consequences are. A teaching of a deep kind of sharing: Ubuntu: umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu “I am what I am because of who we all are.”(Zulu Philosophy).
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