Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
ALAN PATONAlthough nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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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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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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