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

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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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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.

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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.

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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.

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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

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

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

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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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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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