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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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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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Alan Patton
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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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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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It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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