What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATONWe 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 to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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