Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
ALAN PATONThere is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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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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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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