For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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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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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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