The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
ALAN PATONThere is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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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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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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