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?
ALAN PATONThe ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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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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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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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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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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