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ALAN PATONCry 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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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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.
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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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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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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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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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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