"I saw the various museum displays including scenes of torture while feeling heartfelt remorse and sorrow over the great pain and suffering inflicted on South Koreans by Japan's colonial rule,"

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Source : "Koizumi: 'Heartfelt remorse' for Korean suffering" By Sohn Jie-Ae, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2001.

Junichiro Koizumi

#Pain Quotes #Museums Quotes #Japan Quotes

“Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you. Thinking of you this holiday season!”
“Is the circle of fifths a drinking game?”
“When we get the remote Russian village online, what will get people to the Internet is not going to be reports from Human Rights Watch. It's going to be pornography, 'Sex and the City,' or maybe funny videos of cats.”
“The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.”
“Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.”
“There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.”
“The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.”
“If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit the authority of those who rule over us.”

Source : Billy Bragg (2013). “The Progressive Patriot”, p.330, Random House

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