Phrase by 'Peter Abrahams'
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The only places where I have found that simple human dignity, that respect for the other man, and the gracious feel of tolerance and humanity have not been either among the heroes of the class-struggle or the 'thinking men' but among my simple 'backward' people.
Author: Peter Abrahams - South African NovelistPeople , Simple , Man , Respect
A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had not been free to show my real feeling, to voice my true thoughts, my submission had bred bitterness and anger. And there were nearly ten million others who had submitted with equal anger and bitterness.
Author: Peter Abrahams - South African NovelistMan , Today , Thoughts , Anger
Must simplicity and humanity go under in the interest of progress? What is the most important component of civilization - is it human or mechanical? Must thought processes become involved and insincere? Must the class-struggle warp those who are involved in it?
Author: Peter Abrahams - South African NovelistThought , Progress , Humanity , Simplicity
Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.
Author: Peter Abrahams - South African NovelistBlack , Man , Mother , White
Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.
Author: Peter Abrahams - South African NovelistOwn , Lost , Dream , Magic
With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.
Author: Peter Abrahams - South African NovelistMyself , Dreams , Poetry , Self
To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like.
Author: Peter Abrahams - South African NovelistYou , Want , Like , Go
You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.
Author: Peter Abrahams - South African NovelistMan , History , Culture , Alone
My mother was a member of the Cape Coloured community. 'Coloured' is the South African word for the half-caste community that was a by-product of the early contact between black and white.
Author: Peter Abrahams - South African NovelistBlack , Mother , Black And White , White
I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. 'Lamb's Tales' from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter. I stole, by finding, Palgrave's 'Golden Treasury.' These two books, and the 'Everyman' edition of John Keats, were my proudest and dearest possessions, my greatest wealth.
Author: Peter Abrahams - South African NovelistReading , School , Matter , Finding
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