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.
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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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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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 I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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