Journey to Topaz Quotes

“When you do what you know is right,' Father explained, 'you find a dignity in yourself that makes you a happy person.”
― Yoshiko Uchida, Journey to Topaz

“Mother knew it was difficult to have tea and cake with someone and still be unfriendly.”
― Yoshiko Uchida, Journey to Topaz

“I would ask readers to remember that my characters portray the Japanese Americans of 1942 and to recall that the world then was totally different from the one we know today. In 1942 the voice of Martin Luther King had not yet been heard and ethnic pride was yet unborn. There was no awareness in the land of civil rights, and there had yet been no freedom marches or demonstrations of protest. Most Americans, supporting their country in a war they considered just, did nothing to protest our forced removal, and might well have considered it treasonous had we tried to resist or protest.”
― Yoshiko Uchida, Journey to Topaz

“The past is never just the past.”
― Yoshiko Uchida, Journey to Topaz