People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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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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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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 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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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