When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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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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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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