I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
ALAN PATONThe truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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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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