Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
ALAN PATONIt is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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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.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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