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"What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?"
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all."
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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
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"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."
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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
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"But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power."
Power
"What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?"
Man
"When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive."
Forgiveness
"To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man."
Society
"If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing."
Concern
"You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right."
Righteousness
"Cry, 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."
Love
"I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution."
Nation
"God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?"
God
"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."
Life
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