Ghosts of Hiroshima Quotes

“Ever since Moment Zero in Hiroshima”
― Charles Pellegrino, Ghosts of Hiroshima

“Each of you,” he began to teach, “though you may only be a single human being—each of you can, on your own, help us to start understanding each other. That’s all it takes: small steps. That’s all you have to remember. Send simple acts of kindness outward, from person to person. Send forth kindness like a contagious disease.” What could be easier? Yamaguchi wondered. He realized that his hope of change through individual acts of mutual human tenderness might sound simplistic—completely naive, even—“but if we follow such principles, then we must emerge from the experience of war not as Japanese or American, not as Christian or Buddhist, Hindu or Muslim, or Jew or Shinto, but simply as . . . human beings. We have to start somewhere. Have to.”⁠xiv”
― Charles Pellegrino, Ghosts of Hiroshima

“All for one and one for all. One humanity, or none.”
― Charles Pellegrino, Ghosts of Hiroshima

“Please,” he said, “everyone, study history with earnest and think about the nobility and the importance of peace.”
― Charles Pellegrino, Ghosts of Hiroshima

“The history of civilization is written in humanity’s perversion of nature.”
― Charles Pellegrino, Ghosts of Hiroshima