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Iris Shun-Ru Chang was an American journalist, author of historical books and political activist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography, Finding Iris Chang, and the 2007 documentary film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. March 1968 – 9. November 2004
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The Rape of Nanking
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Famous Iris Chang Quotes

“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.”

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

Iris Chang book The Rape of Nanking

Source: The Rape of Nanking

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

Iris Chang book The Rape of Nanking

Source: The Rape of Nanking

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