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.
ALAN PATONTherefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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