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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Paton

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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
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It is not forgive and forget as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but forgive and go forward, building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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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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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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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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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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