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Alan Paton Quotes: It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
         

It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.


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



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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.



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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.

Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.



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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.



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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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