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Alan Paton98 quotes“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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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
Alan PatonAlan Paton Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
Alan PatonAlan Paton We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
Alan PatonAlan Paton 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 PatonAlan Paton When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
Alan PatonAlan Paton The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
Alan PatonAlan Paton There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
Alan PatonAlan Paton It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
Alan PatonAlan Paton Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
Alan PatonAlan Paton The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
Alan PatonAlan Paton For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
Alan PatonAlan Paton Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
Alan PatonAlan Paton 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.
Alan PatonAlan Paton Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
Alan PatonAlan Paton Happy the eyes that can close
Alan PatonAlan Paton It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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