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Alan Stewart Paton was a South African author and anti-apartheid activist.

His works include the novels Cry, the Beloved Country and Too Late the Phalarope. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. January 1903 – 12. April 1988
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Cry, the Beloved Country
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Famous Alan Paton Quotes

“But 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.”

Alan Paton

Source: Cry, The Beloved Country

“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.”

Alan Paton book Cry, the Beloved Country

Source: Cry, the Beloved Country

“For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.”

Alan Paton book Cry, the Beloved Country

Source: Cry, the Beloved Country

“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.”

Alan Paton

Source: Cry, The Beloved Country

“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.”

Alan Paton

Alan Paton Quotes

“The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.”

Alan Paton

Source: Cry, The Beloved Country

“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.”

Alan Paton

Cry, the Beloved Country, 1948
Source: Cry, The Beloved Country

“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.”

Alan Paton

Source: Cry, The Beloved Country

“Happy the eyes that can close”

Alan Paton

Source: Cry, The Beloved Country

“because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.”

Alan Paton book Cry, the Beloved Country

Source: Cry, the Beloved Country

“We had two masters of the spoken word in South Africa, General Smuts and his lieutenant J. H. Hofmeyr, whose life I wrote. Smuts spoke in a high-pitched voice, not the kind of voice that one would expect from a famous soldier, but he too could hold an audience in the hollow of his hand, partly because he was Smuts, partly because he could say nothing trite or shallow, partly because he knew how to speak to ordinary men and women.”

Alan Paton

Alan Paton on Smuts's oratory, in Paton's final essay, A Literary Remembrance, published posthumously in TIME, 25 April 1988, p. 106.

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