The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
ALAN PATONThere are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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For 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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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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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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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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