Pearl S. Buck Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• 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.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Race, Evil, Diversity

  1943 What America Means To Me, ch.1.

• We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Responsibility, Rights, Justice

• The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Justice, Diversity, Mind

• 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

  America, Justice, Diversity

• It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to the subjection of whole groups of other people not like them.

  Pearl S. Buck

  People, Justice, Diversity

• Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy. Food is a human necessity, like water and air, it should be available.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Air, Jewels, Water

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