Falling Wisteria Quotes

“Before the war she believed that the march toward kindness and universal human rights was inevitable, but now she understood that it was a battle to be waged home by home and street by street, including her own, not just across the seas.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Falling Wisteria

“Bigoted politicians and greedy businessmen were working hard to prevent some Japanese Americans from returning to their homes and farms even after all they had done for the war. Proposition 15 proposed that the alien land laws be enshrined in the California constitution in order to force the sale of land.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Falling Wisteria

“Four Freedoms Freedom of speech and expression Freedom of worship Freedom from want Freedom from fear —President Franklin D. Roosevelt State of the Union address January 6, 1941”
― Laila Ibrahim, Falling Wisteria

“The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin The Port Chicago Mutiny: The Story of the Largest Mass Mutiny Trial in U.S. Naval History by Robert L. Allen”
― Laila Ibrahim, Falling Wisteria

“Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration during World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference by Joanne Oppenheim”
― Laila Ibrahim, Falling Wisteria

“The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein”
― Laila Ibrahim, Falling Wisteria

“Jesus was an important man who taught us to make the world more fair, but he isn’t more God than any other person. He’s an example—to be loving and kind to all people even if you don’t agree with them.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Falling Wisteria