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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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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

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For who can stop the heart from breaking?

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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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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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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue

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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

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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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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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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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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.

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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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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.

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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.

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