One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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.
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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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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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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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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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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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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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