Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
ALAN PATONKeep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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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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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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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.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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