Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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And 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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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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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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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