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.
ALAN PATONForgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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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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