The tragedy is not that things are broken.
ALAN PATONCry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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