Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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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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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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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