Power Of Forgiveness || Dr. Yusef Salaam || Exonerated 5 — Transcript

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2. 0:14forgiveness was extremely important
3. 0:17because what you gotta understand is
4. 0:18that if you don't if you can't forgive
5. 0:21the person who has wronged you who
6. 0:24doesn't really even think about you it's
7. 0:25really for yourself it's so that you can
8. 0:27really remove yourself or cut yourself
9. 0:29off from the pain and the burden of
10. 0:33carrying this bag and its weight into
11. 0:35your future and so it's so important
12. 0:38because if you don't do that it destroys
13. 0:39you know some Mandela said that he had
14. 0:42to let go of he had to let go of anger
15. 0:45and bitterness because if he kept it
16. 0:49with him
17. 0:50it would have killed him you know know
18. 0:52and I think one of the great things too
19. 0:54is listening to the words of dr. Maya
20. 0:55Angelou when she said if you she said if
21. 0:58you if you want to think about being
22. 1:00angry and bitter she said you should be
23. 1:01angry but you must not be bitter
24. 1:03he's a bitterness is like a cancer it
25. 1:06eats upon the host it doesn't do
26. 1:08anything to the object of his
27. 1:09displeasure then she tells us to use
28. 1:12that anger you dance it you March it you
29. 1:14voted you do everything about it you
30. 1:16talk it never stop talking and so really
31. 1:19is for you to be able to move forward
32. 1:21without having to worry about the pain
33. 1:24of what happened in the past but never
34. 1:26forget you could forgive but you should
35. 1:29never forget
36. 1:30I heard a preacher once said that they
37. 1:34prayed to God because their life was
38. 1:37being shaken and they looked up and
39. 1:40realized that God was doing the shakin
40. 1:43sometimes and you and I only think about
41. 1:45myself in this regard I think about
42. 1:48others too but I can only use myself as
43. 1:50an example in this regard that imagine
44. 1:53if you will being taken out of the world
45. 1:57and placed in the belly of the beast a
46. 2:00wound of sort and in that womb just like
47. 2:04in the womb of your mother you have to
48. 2:06be shaped and formed and stretched in
49. 2:08order to be able to live in society
50. 2:10after nine months you come out early
51. 2:14they put you in an incubator but in this
52. 2:17particular instance they had to take us
53. 2:18to God saw it that we were taken out of
54. 2:21society and placed in the belly of the
55. 2:23beast so that we could be shaped and
56. 2:26formed and stretched in order to deal
57. 2:28with life 30 years later with a brand
58. 2:31new mindset so that we could tell people
59. 2:33how to make moves how to fight how do
60. 2:36you struggle in the face of adversity
61. 2:38when it seems like all hope is gone then
62. 2:42you look at us and you say to yourself
63. 2:44there is hope I tell young people all
64. 2:47the time but if they can imagine
65. 2:49themselves in their own future we have
66. 2:52to begin to live past present future
67. 2:54tense in order to really make sense of
68. 2:56what we have to do young people have
69. 2:58coined the term Yolo you only live once
70. 3:00that's the most choice term in the world
71. 3:02however when young people say it wrapped
72. 3:05in that thought is that you have to live
73. 3:07recklessly you have to live without
74. 3:09caring you have to live you know in a
75. 3:12way where you drink all the alcohol you
76. 3:14smoke all the weed you sniff all or
77. 3:16whatever you sleep with all the people
78. 3:17you do everything but don't care about
79. 3:20tomorrow rather you should live your
80. 3:22life like a Nipsey Hussle
81. 3:23you should plant seeds in the future so
82. 3:26that even if you don't sit under the
83. 3:28shade of those trees your family will
84. 3:31the communities that you place those
85. 3:33seeds in will and I think that that's
86. 3:35the most important thing that - that's
87. 3:37in between our birth and our death it
88. 3:39makes the most and means the most in
89. 3:41laws that we have to leave something
90. 3:43behind a legacy of sort that says that
91. 3:46we were here thank you so much for
92. 3:49watching I never knew TV
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