It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
Alan PatonThere are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
Alan PatonWhen I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I havenโt any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldnโt face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
Alan PatonThe Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
Alan PatonThere is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
Alan Paton