Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
ALAN PATONPain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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 am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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 only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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