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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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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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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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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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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. 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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And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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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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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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