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For me, the Quality of Mercy is about what to do with particularly violent histories—when you inherit them

— Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

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What do we do with this inherited state? An eye for an eye or forgiveness?” —and what does that forgiveness (or mercy) even look like

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