Перл Бак цитаты
Перл Бак
Дата рождения: 26. Июнь 1892
Дата смерти: 6. Март 1973
Другие имена: Pearl S. Bucková
Перл Бак, урождённая Сайденстрикер — американская писательница, лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе. Дочь миссионера, она провела детство и юность в Китае, в стране, которая вдохновила её на написание своих произведений.
В 1938 году становится лауреатом Нобелевской премии по литературе «За многогранное, поистине эпическое описание жизни китайских крестьян и за биографические шедевры». В Китае часто считается китайской писательницей.
Цитаты Перл Бак
„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.“
Источник: What America Means to Me (1943), p. 8
Контексте: 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. It is not healthy when a nation lives inside 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. For it is never the one who suffers injustice who is the injured one, but the one who is unjust. Slavery bred a race of idle and shiftless white men, and race prejudice continues the evil work. White people who insist on their superority because of the color of the skin they were born with- can there be so empty and false a superiority as this? Who is injured the most by that foolish assumption, the colored or the white? In his soul it s the white man. It is the wise white people who ought now to be angry because of race prejudice, for as surely as night follows day our country will fail in its democracy because of race prejudice unless we root it out. We cannot grow in strength and leadership for democracy so long as we carry deep in our being this fatal fault.
