There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
ALAN PATONIf you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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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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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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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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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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