People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
ALAN PATONBut sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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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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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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