One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
ALAN PATONSuch lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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