For who can stop the heart from breaking?
ALAN PATONThere is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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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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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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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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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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