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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.

Alan Paton

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Free Give Man Reform Responsibility Society Task
Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Bird Land Move Sing
And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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Ehetehr Grass Halt Moment Movement See Wake
Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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Doom Fear Hate Hell Messenger Mind Open Sadness
There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Completely Love One Only Power Thing
I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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All God Hand His Man Sinful Well
Therefore 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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According Judge Justice Law Unjust
The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Capitulate Country Destroy Go Himself Nowhere Rather
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Lovely Raed Run
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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Believe Come Knew Lord Our Suffer
Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Ever Except Foot Nothing Quiet
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Judge Law Make People
The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Being Came Creator Ground Holy
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Bring Broke Himself Kill Men

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