The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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