To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
Alan PatonThe Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
Alan PatonOne thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
Alan PatonCry, 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.
Alan PatonFor it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
Alan PatonWhat broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
Alan Paton