We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
ALAN PATONAsk yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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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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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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