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.
ALAN PATONBut when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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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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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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