People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
ALAN PATONWhen men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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When 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?
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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