There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
ALAN PATONPain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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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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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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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.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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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 a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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