We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
ALAN PATONIt is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying 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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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