Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
ALAN PATONBuilding on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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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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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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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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