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.
ALAN PATONThere 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.
ALAN PATONBut the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
ALAN PATONThe tragedy is that things are not mended again.
ALAN PATONThe tragedy is not that things are broken.
ALAN PATONIt is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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 PATONThere is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
ALAN PATONI 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.
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 PATONAlthough nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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 PATONWhen men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
ALAN PATONThe sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
ALAN PATONForgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
ALAN PATONThe Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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