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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

Alan Paton

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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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Alan Patton
Alan Stewart Paton
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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