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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.

Alan Paton

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
ALAN PATON

Ask Expedient Right Yourself
Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
ALAN PATON

Bird Land Move Sing
This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
ALAN PATON

Beauty Country Field Hedge Talk Time
She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
ALAN PATON

Endeavor God Leave Result Seek Sustenance Taught
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
ALAN PATON

Men Work
The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
ALAN PATON

Endurable Inhumanity Make Man Only Way
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
ALAN PATON

Judge Law Make People
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
ALAN PATON

Break Heart Stop
These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
ALAN PATON

Beyond Covered Grass Love Roll Sing
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATON

Another Bring Broke Himself Kill Men
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
ALAN PATON

Central Concern Country Novel Publish Ussie Worth Wrote
For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
ALAN PATON

Air Hat Mad Men Mine Money Something Throw
What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
ALAN PATON

Beat Broke Death Down Flesh Heart Knife Living Thrust
Happy the eyes that can close
ALAN PATON

Close Eye Happy One Liner
There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
ALAN PATON

All Fall Much Now Silence Talk
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.
ALAN PATON

Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way

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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