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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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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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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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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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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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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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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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