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.
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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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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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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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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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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