Iris Chang Quotes

• Please believe in THE POWER OF ONE. One person can make an enormous difference in the world. One person - actually, one idea - can start a war, or end one, or subvert an entire power structure. One discovery can cure a disease or spawn new technology to benefit or annihilate the human race. You as ONE individual can change millions of lives. Think big. Do not limit your vision and do not ever compromise your dreams or ideals.

  Iris Chang

  Dream, War, Believe

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• As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.

  Iris Chang

  Years, Holocaust, Forget

  Iris Chang (1997). “The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II”, p.21, Basic Books

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• The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

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  Wind, Disappear, Spoken Word

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• Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

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  People, Evil, Would Be

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• I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

  Iris Chang

  Space, Talking, People

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• Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

  Iris Chang

  Aliens

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• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

  Iris Chang

  Book, Comfort, Stories

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• Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

  Iris Chang

  Country, Struggle, Rights

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• The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

  Iris Chang

  Uprising, Soldier, Rebellion

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• It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.

  Iris Chang

  Looks, Information, Enough

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• It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.

  Iris Chang

  Difficult, Relics

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• When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day — but by the minute.

  Iris Chang

  Believe, Thinking, Years

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• Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.

  Iris Chang

  Book, Way, Immortality

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• Its a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.

  Iris Chang

  Baby, Couple, White

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• When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.

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  San Francisco, Chinese, Special

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• Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

  Iris Chang

  Media, Economic, Driven

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• There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

  Iris Chang

  Country, Government, Engagement

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• I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.

  Iris Chang

  Book, Journey, Cities

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• For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

  Iris Chang

  Writing, People, Liberty

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• They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

  Iris Chang

  Barbie, Asian

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• I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

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  Writing, Thinking, May

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• After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.

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  Book, Writing, Interesting

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• I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.

  Iris Chang

  Skills, Historical, Gathering

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• Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

  Iris Chang

  Hard Times, Racism, Racist

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• There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

  Iris Chang

  Country, Boston, Class

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