One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
ALAN PATONbecause 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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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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?
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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