When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
ALAN PATONCry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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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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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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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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