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.
"Alan Stewart Paton" was a South African author and South Africa under apartheid/anti-apartheid activist.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous novelists! More Alan Paton on Wikipedia.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.
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.
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.
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating.
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.
You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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