Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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?
More Alan Paton Quotes
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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