In the meantime the strike is over, with a remarkably low loss of life. All is quiet, they report, all is quiet.In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In...

Was there nothing to fight for?” I couldn’t face that question.

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers,...

Have you a room that you could let?””Yes, I have a room that I could let, but I do not want to let it. I have only two rooms, and there are six of us...

They were your friends?””Yes, they were my friends.””And they will leave you to suffer alone?””Now I see it.””And until this, were they friends you could trust?””I could trust them.””I see what you mean. You mean...

All roads lead to Johannesburg. If you are white or if you are black they lead to Johannesburg. If the crops fail, there is work in Johannesburg. If there are taxes to be paid, there...

When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts. Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.

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.

Meneer, said the captain, if man takes unto himself God’s right to punish, then he must also take upon himself God’s promise to restore.

There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

There’s a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

— This world is full of trouble, umfundisi.—Who knows it better?—Yet you believe?Kumalo looked at him under the light of the lamp. I believe, he said, but I have learned that it is a secret....