Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
ALAN PATONFear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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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.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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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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