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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.

Alan Paton

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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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But 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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