Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
ALAN PATONLet him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
ALAN PATONAnd 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.
ALAN PATONSomething deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
ALAN PATONKeep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
ALAN PATONLet 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.
ALAN PATONFor fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
ALAN PATONBut when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
ALAN PATONLife has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
ALAN PATONWhen 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?
ALAN PATONOne thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
ALAN PATONAnd money is not something to go mad about …
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.
ALAN PATONOne day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
ALAN PATONThe tragedy is that things are not mended again.
ALAN PATONBut 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.
ALAN PATONNosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
ALAN PATON