Alan Paton Quotes, Running Quotes, Country Quotes

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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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.

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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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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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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.

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

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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.

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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

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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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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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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

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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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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.

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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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It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.

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