I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
ALAN PATONWhat broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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