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The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.
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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Human Rights Activist
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
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Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
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A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.
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Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
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For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.
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Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?
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The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.
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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.
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We must have hope or starve to death.
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People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.
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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
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We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.
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