Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
ALAN PATONCry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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