"feudal. Wrong, I suppose, obsolete, but more comfortable all around"

"And when I flared up and told [the police] that so long as my natives did their work, I didn’t think it my right or c…"

"at the waste, the uselessness of this sacrifice by people so poor. Just like the poor everywhere, I thought, who stin…"

"I had the feeling that they were shocked, in a laconic fashion, by their own mistake, but that in the confusion of th…"

"It’s a matter of principle. It’s time these officials had a jolt from someone who’ll bother to take the trouble”"

"I continued to pass on assurances to Petrus every evening, but every evening, it sounded weaker. At last, it became c…"

"So the whole thing was a complete waste, even more of a waste for the poor devils than I thought it would be”"

"The farm hasn’t managed that for us, of course, but it has done other things, unexpected, illogical."

"And for a moment I accept the triumph as I had managed it."

"When Johannesburg people speak of ‘tension,’ they don’t mean hurrying people in crowded streets, the struggle for mon…"