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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.

Alan Paton

One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Already Being Day One People Rebuilt Tribe
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
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
Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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Aloud Aye Bereaved Children Custom Dead Law Tribe Woman
There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Completely Love One Only Power Thing
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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Country Creation Great Healer Make Taught Use Wound
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Already Although Come Nothing Something
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Break Heart Stop
But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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Anything Destroy House Rebuild Something Strom
Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Bird Land Move Sing
When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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Any Big Go Intention Judge Say Will Wound
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
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Bring Broke Himself Kill Men
It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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Cost Done Men One Other Permissible Possession These Thing
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Men Work

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