you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.
Pearl S. BuckToo 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.
Pearl S. BuckOur 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. BuckTo serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
Pearl S. Buck