“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”– Hannah Arendt Related Quotes “Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”– Jane Austen “Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC’s military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.”– Desmond Tutu “Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.”– Dag Hammarskjold