The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
ALAN PATONAlthough nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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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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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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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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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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