The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
("Cry, the Beloved Country")
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.Alan Paton
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating.
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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.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?
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