I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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