To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
ALAN PATONIt is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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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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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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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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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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