It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
ALAN PATONI have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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 the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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