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ALAN PATONThe only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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