Recently deceased Civil Rights leader John Lewis wrote in 1998 for The New York Times about forgiving his old segregationist nemesis George Wallace:
Although we had long been adversaries, I did not meet Governor Wallace until 1979. During that meeting, I could tell that he was a changed man; he was engaged in a campaign to seek forgiveness from the same African-Americans he had oppressed. He acknowledged his bigotry and assumed responsibility for the harm he had caused. He wanted to be forgiven.
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