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Indeed, mother, you are always our helper.
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating.
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)
It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)
I do this not because I am courageous and honest, but because it is the only way to end the conflict of my deepest soul.
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)
The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)
I see only one hope for our country, and that is when white men and black men . . . desiring only the good of their country, come together to work for it. . . . I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating.
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)
The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)
Happy the eyes that can close.
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)
The humble man reached in his pocket for his sacred book, and began to read. It was this world alone that was certain.
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)
The 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.
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)
This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. . . . Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)
...there is only one thing that has power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)
The truth is that our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of high assurance and desperate anxiety, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions. Allow me a minute. . . .
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)
The white man has broken the tribe. And it is my belief—and again I ask your pardon—that it cannot be mended again. But the house that is broken, and the man that falls apart when the house is broken, these are the tragic things. That is why children break the law, and old white people are robbed and beaten.
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)
...Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)
I say we shall always have native crime to fear until the native people of this country have worthy goals to work for. For it is only because they see neither purpose nor goal that they turn to drink and crime and prostitution.
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)
There 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.
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)