One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
ALAN PATONIt is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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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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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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The 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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