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Alan Paton
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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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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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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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.
Alan Paton
All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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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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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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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.
Alan Paton
Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
Alan Paton
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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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