Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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