Sadako Sasaki

We love this quote by Sadako Sasaki. She was a Japanese girl who was two years old when an American atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, near her home. In 1954, Sadako developed swellings on her body and was diagnosed with leukemia (her mother referred to it as "an atom bomb disease"). Sadako spent her time in a hospital folding origami paper cranes in hope of making a thousand of them. She was inspired to do so by the Japanese legend that one who created a thousand origami cranes would be granted a wish. She died on the morning of 25 October 1955. A statue of Sadako holding a golden crane was unveiled in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. At the foot of the statue is a plaque that reads: "This is our cry. This is our prayer. Peace in the world."