The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
ALAN PATONLife has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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