It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
ALAN PATONSorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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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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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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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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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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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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