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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.

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All roads lead to Johannesburg.

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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

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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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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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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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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.

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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.

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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

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

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Happy the eyes that can close

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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for. Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes. Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.

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It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.

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

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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

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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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