Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
ALAN PATONWhat broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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 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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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