One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
ALAN PATONThere are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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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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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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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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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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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