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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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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.

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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

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

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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.

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

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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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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

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

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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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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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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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Happy the eyes that can close

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