It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
ALAN PATONFor mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Cry 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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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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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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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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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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