Paton, Alan

"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."

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

"Who knows for what we live, 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."

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