Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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