To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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When 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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