What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATONTherefore 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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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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