But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
ALAN PATONIt is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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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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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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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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