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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Paton

We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Men Work
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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Hard Obedient Open Other Perhaps Quiet School Too Wear Work
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
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Kindness Love Pain Secret Suffer
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
And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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Ehetehr Grass Halt Moment Movement See Wake
The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Endurable Inhumanity Make Man Only Way
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Fear Give Much Rob Too
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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Believe Come Knew Lord Our Suffer
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Broke Could Himself Kill Man
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
I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Christian Free Suffer Thought
Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Enough No One People Second
Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Already Although Come Nothing Something
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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Cost Done Men One Other Permissible Possession These Thing

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