It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
ALAN PATONThe Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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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.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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