What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATONFor it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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