“I see only one hope for our country, and that is when white men and black men, desiring neither power nor money,… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply.… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“But there is only one thing that has power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving,… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“He is a missionary and believes in God, intensely I mean, but it takes all kinds to make a world.” — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“All roads lead to Johannesburg. If you are white or if you are black they lead to Johannesburg. If the crops fail, there is… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“There's a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.” — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and that's why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school,… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts. Although nothing has come… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“In a land of fear... incorruptibility is like a lamp set upon a stand, giving light to all in the house.” — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“Something within me is waking from long sleep, and I want to live and move again. Some zest is returning to me, some immense… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“Would age now swiftly overtake him? Would this terrible nodding last now for all his days, so that men said aloud in his presence,… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
