What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATONMoney 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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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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 lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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