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Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.

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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Hillsboro
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Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
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Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
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