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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.

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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.

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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

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

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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.

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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.

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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.

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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.

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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.

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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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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.

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