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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

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Century Come Dawn Fall never Thousand
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Kindness Love Pain Secret Suffer
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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Doom Fear Hate Hell Messenger Mind Open Sadness
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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Begun Continue Finish One Something Thing
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
Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Already Although Come Nothing Something
But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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Another Counsel Cry Help Neither Seek Something
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Break Heart Stop
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Die Know Live Struggle
I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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All God Hand His Man Sinful Well
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
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Dep Done Forgive Injury Recover Until
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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According Judge Justice Law Unjust
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Deep Good Here Something Touch
The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Again Mend Thing Tragedy
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Free Give Man Reform Responsibility Society Task

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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