Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
ALAN PATONThe Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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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 not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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