The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
ALAN PATONI 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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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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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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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 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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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