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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling and they are lovely beyond any singing of it. The road climbs seven miles into them, to Carisbrooke; and from there, if there is no mist, you look down on one of the fairest valleys of Africa.
Cry, the Beloved Country
First lines of novel, Chapter 1.
They go to Johannesburg, and there they are lost, and no one hears of them at all.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Chapter 2.
Happy the eyes that can close.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Narrator's comment on finding peace in a troubled society, Chapter 2.
The white man has broken the tribe. And it is my belief - and again I ask your pardon - that it cannot be mended again. But the house that is broken, and the man that falls apart when the house is broken, these are the tragic things. That is why children break the law, and old white people are robbed and beaten.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Rev. Msimangu, Chapter 5.
She has many husbands.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Chapter 5.
One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Chapter 6.
I see only one hope for our country, and that is when white men and black men...desiring only the good of their country, come together to work for it...I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Msimangu on fears about future relations between black and white people in South Africa, Chapter 7.
All roads lead to Johannesburg.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Chapter 9.
Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Chapter 10.
Who indeed knows the secret of the earthly pilgrimage? Who indeed knows why there can be comfort in a world of desolation.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Stephen Kumalo's thoughts during his stay in Johannesburg, Chapter 10.
This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country...Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Narrator reflects how grave and ingrained South Africa's problems are, Chapter 11.
And he was silent again, for who is not silent when someone is dead, who was a small bright boy?
Cry, the Beloved Country
An upset Kumalo remembers the murdered man as a child, Chapter 11.
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is 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, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Narrator's disquiet at condition of his country, Chapter 12.
The tribe was broken, and would be mended no more.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Kumalo's realization on discovering depths to which his sister and son have sunk in Johannesburg, Chapter 13.
Have no doubt it is fear in his eyes.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Chapter 14.
You see, my brother, there is no proof that my son or this other young man was there at all.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Chapter 14.
We do what is in us, and why it is in us, that is also a secret. It is Christ in us, crying that men may be succoured and forgiven, even when He Himself is forsaken.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Chapter 15.
It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Chapter 20.
The truth is that our society is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of high assurance and desperate anxiety, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possession. Allow me a minute..
Cry, the Beloved Country
Last words of manuscript Arthur Jarvis was working on a few moments before he was murdered, Chapter 21.
In a land of fear this incorruptibility is like a lamp set upon a stand, giving light to all that are in the house.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Chapter 22.
No second Johannesburg is needed upon the earth. One is enough.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Narrator's comment on idea that another great city will arise in South Africa following discovery of gold in Odendaalrust, Chapter 23.
This thing that is the heaviest thing of all my years, is the heaviest thing of all your years also.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Chapter 25.
There was a brightness in him.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Chapter 25.
And then what will happen to the carpenter's shop, that brings in eight, ten, twelve pounds a week?.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Chapter 26.
In the deserted harbour, there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Narrator on complacency of white South Africans after mineworkers' strike ends, Chapter 26.
I shall care for your child, my son, even as if it were my own.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Chapter 29.
I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Chapter 29.
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Chapter 30.
Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Chapter 30.
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Kumalo's thoughts expressed to his friend on his return from Ndotsheni, Chapter 30.
When you go, something bright will go out of Ndotsheni.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Chapter 33.
That is a small angel from God.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Chapter 33.
Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Chapter 34.
And now for all the people of Africa, the beloved country. Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika, God save Africa. But he would not see that salvation. It lay afar off, because men were afraid of it. Because, to tell the truth, they were afraid of him, and his wife, and Msimangu, and the young demonstrator. And what was there evil in their desires, in their hunger? That man should walk upright in the land where they were born, and be free to use the fruits of the earth, what was there evil in it?...They were afraid because they were so few. And such fear could not be cast out, but by love.
Cry, the Beloved Country
These thoughts are part of novel's conclusion as Kumalo keeps vigil on the mountain while Absalom hangs, Chapter 36.
One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Chapter 36.
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing. But when that dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Kumalo's final thoughts at dawn on the mountain, Chapter 36.
Cry, the Beloved Country is a novel by South African author Alan Paton about social breakdown and racial injustice in South Africa. Published in 1948, it is a social protest against the structures of a society that would later give rise to apartheid. Paton was born on January 11, 1903, and died on April 12, 1988.



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