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First — please, please, please believe in the power of one. One person can change the world by a great measure. One person — in fact, one idea — can start a war, or end a war, or upset an entire structure of power. One discovery can cure a disease; one new technology can save mankind, or destroy it. You are one person, and you can change the lives of millions. Aim high. Do not narrow your sight, and never give up the dream or the conviction you carry.
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The written word is the only way to keep the essence of a soul.
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A human being, in fact, dies twice — once in the death of the body, and once in the moment when he disappears from the memory of others.
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If we look back across a thousand years of history, what becomes plain is this: no race and no culture has held a monopoly on cruelty in war. The garment of civilization is, it seems, very thin — easily torn off.
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Whether this book makes money or not, I do not care. What I want is for everyone in the world to know what happened in Nanjing in 1937.
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Although I had heard from childhood many descriptions of the Nanjing Massacre, those photographs still came on me without warning. The bare black-and-white images were unbearable to look upon: victims with their heads cut off, or with their bellies slit open; women, naked, forced into one obscene posture after another at the demand of those who raped them, their faces twisted, their suffering plain, their disgrace and rage marked into the image so deeply that the eye could not, afterward, let it go.
