Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
ALAN PATON
ALAN PATON
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
Alan PatonAlan Paton For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
Alan PatonAlan Paton Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
Alan PatonAlan Paton To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
Alan PatonAlan Paton Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
Alan PatonAlan Paton But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
Alan PatonAlan Paton I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
Alan PatonAlan Paton The tragedy is not that things are broken.
Alan PatonAlan Paton When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
Alan PatonAlan Paton But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
Alan PatonAlan Paton Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
Alan PatonAlan Paton Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
Alan PatonAlan Paton We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
Alan PatonAlan Paton Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
Alan PatonAlan Paton When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
Alan PatonAlan Paton The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
Alan PatonAlan Paton
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