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.
ALAN PATONKeep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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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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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