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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.

Alan Paton

This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Beauty Country Field Hedge Talk Time
The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Again Mend Thing Tragedy
Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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As Development Exploit Name Such True
One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Already Being Day One People Rebuilt Tribe
because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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Away Compass False Journey Lie Life Ned Play Rest Slip
It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Belief Fear Love Only Power Resist
All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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All Road Country Lead Pople
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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Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way
Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Ever Except Foot Nothing Quiet
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Broke Could Himself Kill Man
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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Men Work
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Fear Give Much Rob Too
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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Destruction Environment Exemplify Humanity Live Man Own Place Reverence
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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Care Destroy Guard Jeep Men
Happy the eyes that can close
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Close Eye Happy One Liner
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.
ALAN PATON

Back Broad Compassion Full Gold Heaven Nothing Purse Reach

Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.

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