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Alan Stewart Paton byl jihoafrický spisovatel, proti-apartheidový aktivista a politik-představitel liberalismu.

V anketě Největší Jihoafričan, kterou pořádala televizní stanice SABC3, obsadil 59. místo. Roku 1953 založil Liberal Party of South Africa, která oponovala vládnoucí apartheidové National Party. Kvůli tomu mu byl roku 1960 zabaven pas a vrácen až za 10 let. K nejznámějším patří jeho kniha Cry, The Beloved Country, která byla i dvakrát zfilmována, roku 1951 Zoltanem Kordou, roku 1995 Darrellem Roodtem. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. leden 1903 – 12. duben 1988
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“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.”

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Alan Paton

Zdroj: 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.”

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Zdroj: 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.”

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Alan Paton kniha Cry, the Beloved Country

Zdroj: Cry, the Beloved Country

“I have always found that actively loving
saves one from a morbid preoccupation
with the shortcomings of society.”

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

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Alan Paton

Zdroj: 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.”

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Cry, the Beloved Country, 1948
Zdroj: 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.”

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Zdroj: Cry, The Beloved Country

“Happy the eyes that can close”

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Zdroj: Cry, The Beloved Country

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

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Alan Paton kniha Cry, the Beloved Country

Zdroj: 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.”

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Alan Paton kniha Cry, the Beloved Country

Zdroj: 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.”

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“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.”

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