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

Alan Paton

Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
ALAN PATON

Born Buy Earth Fruit Land Money
The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
ALAN PATON

Down Eath Enjoy Fear Heart Land Lovely Man Pour Sun
What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
ALAN PATON

Beat Broke Death Down Flesh Heart Knife Living Thrust
Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
ALAN PATON

Afraid Anger Defend Let Poor Strong Weak
The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
ALAN PATON

Capitulate Country Destroy Go Himself Nowhere Rather
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
ALAN PATON

Deep Good Here Something Touch
Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
ALAN PATON

Bird Land Move Sing
But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
ALAN PATON

Always Better Enrich Fear Impoversih Sorrow
Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
ALAN PATON

Children Dream Happy Hope Live Make Money Security
Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
ALAN PATON

Book Hard Human Many Struggle Understand Wisdom Write
Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
ALAN PATON

As Development Exploit Name Such True
Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
ALAN PATON

Endeavor Life Nothing Result She Success Taught
When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
ALAN PATON

Any Big Go Intention Judge Say Will Wound
It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
ALAN PATON

Cost Done Men One Other Permissible Possession These Thing
There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
ALAN PATON

Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way
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.
ALAN PATON

Another Counsel Cry Help Neither Seek Something

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