All roads lead to Johannesburg.
ALAN PATONOne day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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