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The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.

Alan Paton

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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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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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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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