She was a spokesman on all sorts of issues: freedom of the press, freedom of religion, the adoptability of disadvantaged children, the future of China, especially the battle for women's rights, for education. If you followed in her trail, as I did, you were put in touch with almost every major movement in the United States - intellectual, social, and political.

How does a woman of this magnitude and range slip away from our national consciousness? She has not exactly disappeared. Rather, as one reader of an earlier dr…

The most influential Westerner to write about China since thirteenth-century Marco Polo.

Buck's efforts on behalf of equality included tireless support for women's rights. She promoted modern birth control and called her friend Margaret Sanger 'one…

We need an extreme movement because what is happening to animals is so extreme. Some misinformed people claim that animal rights activists are terrorists, but …

The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman.

I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is drastically altered. If we …