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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

Alan Paton

St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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Country Creation Great Healer Make Taught Use Wound
Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Build Create Future Generate Mistake Past Reconciliation
When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Abate Change Men Prevent Rule Strive Very
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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Aloud Aye Bereaved Children Custom Dead Law Tribe Woman
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet
Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Enough No One People Second
Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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All Forgive Trespass Us
For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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Air Hat Mad Men Mine Money Something Throw
The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Again Mend Thing Tragedy
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Free Give Man Reform Responsibility Society Task
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Judge Law Make People
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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Country Envision Great Peaceful Pride Someday Soulful Tak World
Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Born Buy Earth Fruit Land Money
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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Day Fera Great Heart Love One Turn
Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Ever Except Foot Nothing Quiet
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Into Lovely Road Run Xopo

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