It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
("Cry, the Beloved Country")
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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.Alan Paton
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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You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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