Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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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 not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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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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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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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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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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