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.
ALAN PATONAnd man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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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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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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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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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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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