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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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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And 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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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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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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