Happy the eyes that can close
ALAN PATONSadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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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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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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