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When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.
Pearl S. Buck
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Pearl S. Buck
Age: 80 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 26
Died: 1973
Died: March 6
Autobiographer
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.
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When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
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It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.
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