Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
ALAN PATON
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?
More Alan Paton Quotes
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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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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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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