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.
ALAN PATONThere is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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