To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
ALAN PATONThe Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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