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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.

Alan Paton

The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Again Mend Thing Tragedy
Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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Care Destroy Guard Jeep Men
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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All Greatest Offence Punish Restore
Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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Endeavor Life Nothing Result She Success Taught
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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According Judge Justice Law Unjust
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Dep Done Forgive Injury Recover Until
When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Afraid House Man Storm Threaten
I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Christian Free Suffer Thought
Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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Deep Earth FIner Fire Let Love Make Sun Through
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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Aloud Aye Bereaved Children Custom Dead Law Tribe Woman
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Judge Law Make People
The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Broken Thing Tragedy
Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Build Create Future Generate Mistake Past Reconciliation
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Break Heart Stop
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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Begun Continue Finish One Something Thing
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Century Come Dawn Fall never Thousand

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