Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
ALAN PATONNosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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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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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And 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.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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I 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.
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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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