There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
ALAN PATONThe tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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