Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
ALAN PATONWe do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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