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.
ALAN PATONAnd 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.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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 a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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