Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
ALAN PATONThere are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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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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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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