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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.

Alan Paton

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.
ALAN PATON

Against Deserted Forest Harbour Lap Quay Silent Tap
It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
ALAN PATON

Ever Forget Forgive Forward Happen Nothing Wrong
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
ALAN PATON

Free Give Man Reform Responsibility Society Task
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.
ALAN PATON

Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
ALAN PATON

Century Come Dawn Fall never Thousand
There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
ALAN PATON

Cry Done Hundred Must Thousand Voice
The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
ALAN PATON

Again Mend Thing Tragedy
Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
ALAN PATON

Children Clothes Food Happy Love Money Picture
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
ALAN PATON

Central Concern Country Novel Publish Ussie Worth Wrote
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
ALAN PATON

Hard Obedient Open Other Perhaps Quiet School Too Wear Work
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.
ALAN PATON

Ehetehr Grass Halt Moment Movement See Wake
Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
ALAN PATON

Born Buy Earth Fruit Land Money
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
ALAN PATON

Hill Lovely Raed Run
It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
ALAN PATON

Belief Fear Love Only Power Resist
And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
ALAN PATON

Destruction Environment Exemplify Humanity Live Man Own Place Reverence
Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
ALAN PATON

As Development Exploit Name Such True

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