Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
ALAN PATONTo give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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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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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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