When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
ALAN PATONOne day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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