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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

Alan Paton

Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Bird Land Move Sing
I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Beautiful Face Land Question
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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Afraid Anger Defend Let Poor Strong Weak
She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Endeavor God Leave Result Seek Sustenance Taught
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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According Judge Justice Law Unjust
Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Ever Except Foot Nothing Quiet
Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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Children Dream Happy Hope Live Make Money Security
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Free Give Man Reform Responsibility Society Task
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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Begun Continue Finish One Something Thing
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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Country Envision Great Peaceful Pride Someday Soulful Tak World
There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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All Fall Much Now Silence Talk
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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Destroy Family Know Life Permissible Us
There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Completely Love One Only Power Thing
The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Endurable Inhumanity Make Man Only Way
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Judge Law Make People

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