Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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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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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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