What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATONWhen the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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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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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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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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.
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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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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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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