The tragedy is not that things are broken.
ALAN PATONCry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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