Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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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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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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