Alan Paton Quotes, Goes On Quotes, Cry The Beloved Country Quotes

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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

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

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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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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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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

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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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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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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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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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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

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

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

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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.

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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.

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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue

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