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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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Happy the eyes that can close

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All roads lead to Johannesburg.

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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.

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

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

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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

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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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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

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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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And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.

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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.

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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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