For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
ALAN PATONThere 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.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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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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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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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