Reuters quote of the day, May 26

LONDON, May 25 (Reuters) Following is a notable quote from history. ''We chose not to call it compensation but healing. How the hell do you compensate someone for this?'' -- Australia's Reverend David Gill on the country's past assimilation policy. On May 26, 1997, Australian Prime Minister John Howard made a personal apology to tens of thousands of Aborigines forcibly taken from their parents under a past government policy of assimilation.

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