Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
ALAN PATONThe sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his 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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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