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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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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 "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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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools

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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.

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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

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

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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?

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

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All roads lead to Johannesburg.

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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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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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