This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
ALAN PATONAlthough nothing has come yet, something is here already.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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