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Popularity: 0 Vote:	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.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	God forgives us... Who am I not to forgive?
Popularity: 1 Vote:	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.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and that's why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	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.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
Popularity: 0 Vote:	Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... 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.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Biography

Alan Stewart Paton (11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988) was a South African author.

He was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, the son of a minor civil servant.
He studied a B.Sc. at the University of the Natal in his hometown, followed by a diploma in education.
After graduating, he taught at a high school in Ixopo, where he met his future wife, and then at another school back in Pietermaritzburg.
He served as the principal of the Diepkloof Reformatory for young offenders from 1935 to 1948, where he introduced controversial reforms of a progressive slant. In 1953 he founded the South African Liberal Party. He was noted for his opposition to the Apartheid system.

Among his works are Debbie Go Home (1961), Tales from a Troubled Land (1965) (short story collections), Cry, The Beloved Country (1948) and Too Late the Phalarope (1953). Cry, The Beloved Country has been filmed twice (in 1951 and 1995) and was the basis for the Broadway show Lost in the Stars (adaptation by Maxwell Anderson, music by Kurt Weill).