Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
ALAN PATONIt is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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