One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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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.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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Keep 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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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