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

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

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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.

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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.

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Happy the eyes that can close

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All roads lead to Johannesburg.

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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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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 thing that has power completely, and that is love.

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

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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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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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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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