Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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