One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
ALAN PATONCry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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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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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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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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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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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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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight 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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