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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.”

Quote by Pearl S. Buck

Book:My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

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My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

This book presents a first-person narrative that explores the author's life journey through multiple cultural and geographical contexts. It offers a reflective account of personal encounters with significant historical events and figures, drawing on the author's extensive career in international relations and scholarship. The narrative weaves together observations on global affairs, cultural exchange, and the interplay between individual experience and broader historical currents, providing a thoughtful perspective on the 20th century. more

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Pearl S. Buck was a prominent American writer born on June 26, 1892, and died on March 6, 1973. She is celebrated for her works that delve into Chinese culture and life, earning her the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932 for her novel 'The Good Earth'. more

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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.”

People Earth Break Wind Civilization China Chinese Characteristics Civilized Yield Survivor Phases Relentless

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“I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.”

World Should Firsts Believe Children Whole I Believe Fantasy Generations Share Taught Needed Adults Whole World Fantasy Worlds

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“The community must assume responsibility for each child within its confines. Not one must be neglected whatever his condition. The community must see that every child gets the advantages and opportunities which are due him as a citizen and as a human being.”

Humans Children Opportunity Community Human Beings Responsibility Conditions Citizens Advantage Assuming Dues Neglected

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“Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.”

Humans Persons Made Individual Simple Answers Race Situation Cry India South Raised Complexes Excuse These Days Human Race Complexity Stride

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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.”

Men Real Country Earth Realizing Democracy Share Achieve Equal True Democracy

Book:Of Men and Women

Source: Of Men and Women

“When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.”

Stills Democracy

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“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.”

Want Feels Persons Life Is Wish Emotion Objects Prejudice Victim Release Unhappiness Irrelevant Subjective Dissatisfaction

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“No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.”

Facts Use Young Purpose Stuff Results Brain Education Principles Too Short Elimination True Education

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“It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.”

Children Care Age Education Progress Teaching Terrible Weapons Destruction Mercy Intelligent Nuclear Weapons

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“endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be a harsh and bitter root in one's life, bearing poisonous and gloomy fruit, destroying other lives. Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.”

Ifs Doe Enough Joy Acceptance Sorrow Roots Fruit Endure Accepted Bitter Endurance Destroying Harsh Alchemy Gloomy Poisonous

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