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Alan Paton

b: Pietermaritzburg, Natal Province, South Africa, Jan 11, 1903

d: Botha's Hill, South Africa, Apr 12, 1988

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

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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.

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.

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.