But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
ALAN PATONOne day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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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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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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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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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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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Happy the eyes that can close
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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