Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
ALAN PATONAnd were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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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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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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