The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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 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.
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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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