Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
ALAN PATONLet him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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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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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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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 to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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