Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
ALAN PATONBut when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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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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