What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATONAnd were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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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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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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