Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
ALAN PATONThe only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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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 only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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