For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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There 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.
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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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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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