Shanghai Story Quotes

“Most people do not know that Shanghai had a large Jewish population before the Communist takeover. I was very surprised myself when I first learned about it.”
― Alexa Kang, Shanghai Story

“All you can do is trust yourself and remember why you’re doing what you do.”
― Alexa Kang, Shanghai Story

“there are people who, by their very own nature, can transcend race, ethnicity, and the like.”
― Alexa Kang, Shanghai Story

“These are orphans of soldiers who died fighting for our causes. Warphans, I call them.”
― Alexa Kang, Shanghai Story

“In this world, there had to be people who still have a conscience, right?”
― Alexa Kang, Shanghai Story

“It’s the shop I told you all about on Yates Road,”
― Alexa Kang, Shanghai Story

“I dream of a world where no law or human divide would stop two people from falling in love.”
― Alexa Kang, Shanghai Story

“No matter where we came from or where we are, there are good and bad people among all of us, because in the end, we’re all human.”
― Alexa Kang, Shanghai Story

“Why was it that no matter where one went, people always had a need to feel superior to others who were not like themselves? Human nature, he supposed.”
― Alexa Kang, Shanghai Story

“Foreign relations was a game. A game in which you commit real deception against your friends and extend false friendships to your enemies.”
― Alexa Kang, Shanghai Story

“The more one says, the more one errs.”
― Alexa Kang, Shanghai Story

“They were eyes with a soul.”
― Alexa Kang, Shanghai Story

“After the war ended, Captain Schroder was honored in the Hall of the Righteous at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Museum,”
― Alexa Kang, Shanghai Story

“It is now a well-known fact that Jews were in true peril under the boot of the Third Reich. Germany’s goal was to be judenfrei, “free of Jews.” In fact, they hated the Jewish people so much that they would later engage in systematic murder to eliminate them from the earth completely. However, in July of 1938, a conference was called in Evian-les-Bains, a town in France. Thirty-two countries, as well as delegates from relief organizations, were represented. The meeting was held because Germany was making life so difficult for its Jewish population. The Jews were looking to immigrate anywhere in order to escape the Nazi persecution. Yet, with the exception of the Dominican Republic, none of the countries present were willing to accept any Jewish refugees.”
― Alexa Kang, Shanghai Story