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 PATONThe tragedy is not that things are broken.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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Let 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.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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