If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
ALAN PATONAnd 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.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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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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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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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.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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