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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
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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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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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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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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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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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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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