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

From an essay "The Challenge of Fear" published in 1967 by Alan Stewart Paton, a white South African writer, liberal political activist, and author of Cry, The Beloved Country (which has been made into a movie twice - in 1951 and in 1995, and into a Broadway musical.)

Tags: Alan Stewart PAton, Reform, Responsibility

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