Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
ALAN PATONForgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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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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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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