Iris Chang Quotes
The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
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.
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
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.
The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.
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.
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.
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.
If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
