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?
ALAN PATONIf you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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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 the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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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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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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