I was just reading a blog post about someone trying to figure out how to teach her children about an infamous ancestor. One of the comments talked about learning about all of the person's life, not just their bad deeds and included this amazingly wonderful sentence:
You don’t forget or excuse or justify the crime, but the crime doesn’t replace the human being, either.
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That is a beautiful sentence! I've always been bothered by people that discount quotes by Thomas Jefferson because "he owned slaves." Yeah, nobody's perfect. But if we fixate too much on what people do wrong (even ourselves) we discount all the good that they are - and most people are more good than bad.
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