But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
ALAN PATONIt is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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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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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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