It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
ALAN PATONThis is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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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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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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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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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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