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.
ALAN PATONCry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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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, these things are not yet at an end.
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