To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
ALAN PATONTo give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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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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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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