Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
ALAN PATONTo give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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 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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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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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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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