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.
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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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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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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 am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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