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.
ALAN PATONSorrow is better than fear.
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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 is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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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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