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

Alan Paton
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More Quotes By Alan Paton
  1. I have always found that actively lovingsaves one from a morbid preoccupationwith the shortcomings of society.

  2. They were your friends?"" Yes, they were my friends."" And they will leave you to suffer alone?"" Now I see it."" And until this, were they friends you could trust?"" I could trust them."" I see what you mean. You mean they were the kind...

  3. 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.

  4. There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

  5. There's a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

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