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.

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

Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for if the father did not strike the son, they would not be alike. It is done to perpetuate similarity. Oh, Henderson, man cannot keep still under the blows.... A hit B? B hit C?--we have not enough alphabet to cover the condition. A brave man will try to make the evil stop with him. He shall keep the blow. No man shall get it from him, and that is a sublime ambition.

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

Being in pain and yet enduring it is what separated man from a boy.