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.
ALAN PATONThe Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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