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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.

Alan Paton

And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
ALAN PATON

Destruction Environment Exemplify Humanity Live Man Own Place Reverence
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
ALAN PATON

Achieve Always Found Love Morbid Preoccupation Save Shortcoming Society
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
ALAN PATON

Kindness Love Pain Secret Suffer
Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
ALAN PATON

Bird Land Move Sing
Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
ALAN PATON

Book Hard Human Many Struggle Understand Wisdom Write
One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
ALAN PATON

Already Being Day One People Rebuilt Tribe
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
ALAN PATON

Die Know Live Struggle
Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
ALAN PATON

Children Dream Happy Hope Live Make Money Security
These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
ALAN PATON

Beyond Covered Grass Love Roll Sing
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATON

Dep Done Forgive Injury Recover Until
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATON

Another Bring Broke Himself Kill Men
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
The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
ALAN PATON

Down Eath Enjoy Fear Heart Land Lovely Man Pour Sun
Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
ALAN PATON

Born Buy Earth Fruit Land Money
There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
ALAN PATON

Cry Done Hundred Must Thousand Voice

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