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 PATONThe Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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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.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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