And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
("Cry, the Beloved Country")
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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.Alan Paton
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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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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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