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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.

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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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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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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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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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