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ALAN PATONNosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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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.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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