I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
ALAN PATONWhen I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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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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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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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.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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