The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
ALAN PATONWhat broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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