Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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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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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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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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Cry 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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying 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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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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