Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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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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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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