The tragedy is not that things are broken.
ALAN PATONCry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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