Pearl S. Buck Quotes About Prejudice

Quotes about: Prejudice

• 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.

• Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them.... If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Country, Philosophy, Philosophical

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

  Pearl S. Buck

  Justice, Diversity, Mind

• 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.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Wish, Prejudice, Want

• Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mother, Race, Profound

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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