STORIES HAVE THE POWER TO TRANSFORM

The Forgiveness Project shares stories of forgiveness in order to build hope, empathy and understanding.

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Anne-Marie Cockburn

"They wanted him to be punished but I just said, "I'll never ever get justice for Martha because she's dead so why waste two young lives instead of just one"."

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Margot Van Sluytman

"At first I hated the very notion of forgiveness. To tell someone who is in pain to forgive is brutal. Forgiveness can’t be prescriptive."

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The Forgiveness Project Ruchi Singh

Ruchi Singh

"Forgiveness doesn’t mean saying I’m OK with what he did, it means I can continue with my life in a more peaceful frame of mind."

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