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?
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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Happy the eyes that can close
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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