"for the ground is holy, being even as it came from the creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. destroy it and man is destroyed."
"this is a long way to go, and a lot of money to pay. and who knows how sick his sister may be, and what money that may cost? and if he has to bring her back, what will that cost too?"
"and johannesburg is a great city, with so many streets they say that a man can spend his days going up one and down another, and never the same one twice."
"it was permissible to allow the destruction of a tribal system that impeded the growth of the country. it was permissible to believe that its destruction was inevitable. But it is not permissible to watch its destruction, and to replace it by nothing, or by so little, that a whole people deteriorates, physically and morally."