Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
ALAN PATONCry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
ALAN PATONOne thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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.
ALAN PATONFor who can stop the heart from breaking?
ALAN PATONThere is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
ALAN PATONAnd 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.
ALAN PATONForgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
ALAN PATONBut 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.
ALAN PATONI have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
ALAN PATONbecause 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.
ALAN PATONNothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
ALAN PATONLet 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 PATONI 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.
ALAN PATONFor it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
ALAN PATONIn the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
ALAN PATONAnd 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.
ALAN PATON