One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
ALAN PATONThere is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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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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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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