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"(...) If we want to work for peace, justice is indispensable and forgiveness is the best tool for reconciliation. I should say, forgiveness is the most effective form of revenge. There is no contradiction between justice, a public state or interstate responsibility, that ensures respect for rights and responsibilities and avoids inequalities, and forgiveness, a personal choice and discrete act that has to be given without mental reservations, because the natural instinct would lead to pay back evil with evil. Recalling that Norman Angell said, the obstacles to peace are in the minds and hearts of men, I therefore insist: no peace without justice, no peace without forgiveness! Justice and reconciliation are indeed the keys for a sustained peace."
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