Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
ALAN PATONFor mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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Happy the eyes that can close
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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