All roads lead to Johannesburg.
ALAN PATONBuilding on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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 to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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Happy the eyes that can close
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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