Iris Chang Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.”

“I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.”

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

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

“Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.”

“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.”

“It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.”

“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.”

“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.”

“They probably do have an Asian Barbie.”