“Now she wanted for me the same thing I thought I wanted. Acceptance, in her eyes, was simply another means for survival.” Acceptance Book:Farewell to Manzanar, Grade 10: Mcdougal Littell Literature Connections Source: Farewell to Manzanar, Grade 10: Mcdougal Littell Literature Connections
“You cannot deport 110,000 people unless you have stopped seeing individuals. Of course, for such a thing to happen, there has to be a kind of acquiescence on the part of the victims, some submerged belief that this treatment is deserved, or at least allowable.” PrejudiceInjusticeWorld War 2Deportation Book:Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment Source: Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
“That continuous, unnamed ache I had been living with was precise and definable now. Call it the foretaste of being hated. I knew ahead of time that if someone looked at me with hate, I would have to allow it, to swallow it, because something in me, something about me deserved it.” PrejudiceInjusticeInternment Author:Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston