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Quote by Wole Soyinka
There is a deep lesson for the world in the black races’ capacity to forgive.
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The speaker presents Black people’s ability to forgive as a lesson for everyone else. The wording makes a broad claim about an entire group, but its central idea is that forgiveness can offer something valuable for the wider world to learn from.
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- NobelPrize.org — Wole Soyinka’s Nobel Lecture
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- Official Statement
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