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It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.
Pearl S. Buck
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Pearl S. Buck
Age: 80 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 26
Died: 1973
Died: March 6
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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
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I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.
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In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.
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From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.
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Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung
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Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.
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A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.
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It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.
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starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
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