Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
ALAN PATONWho knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
More Alan Paton Quotes
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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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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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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