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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.

— Alan Paton Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)

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A word from you is twice as severe because it comes from you.

Too Late the Phalarope (1953)

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.”

The light of the body is the eye, and when the eye is true then is the body full of light, but when the eye is evil, then is the body dark.

Too Late the Phalarope (1953)

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)

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