The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
ALAN PATONWho knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
More Alan Paton Quotes
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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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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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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