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

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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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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.

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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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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

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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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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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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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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 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 one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.

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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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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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