But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
ALAN PATONMoney is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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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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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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