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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.

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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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