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.
ALAN PATONOne 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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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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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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