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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.

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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Emancipation
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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 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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There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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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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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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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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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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