God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?

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

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

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You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

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Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.

Alan Paton in Cry the Beloved Country
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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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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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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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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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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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