Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
ALAN PATONThis is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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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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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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