But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
ALAN PATONSadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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 Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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