Carrie Buck
Carrie E. Buck (July 3, 1906 – January 28, 1983) was a plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927), and was ordered to undergo compulsory sterilization for purportedly being "feeble-minded." The surgery was carried out while Buck was an inmate of the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded under the authority of the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, part of the state of Virginia's eugenics program.
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“Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.”
—Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973)