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.
ALAN PATONOne 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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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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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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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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What 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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