Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
ALAN PATONThere is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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