{"quotes":[{"text":"Ruth wiped her eyes. Successful at a price? Forgiven but damaged? She wished so much more for her baby sister.","author":"Sarah Sundin","tags":["historical-romance","world-war-ii"],"id":3657,"author_id":"Sarah+Sundin"},{"text":"One day this war will end. And when it does, Tule Lake will be just a memory.","author":"Teresa R. Funke","tags":["children-s","japanese-internment","life","remembering","war","world-war-ii"],"id":3788,"author_id":"Teresa+R.+Funke"},{"text":"Until the War, we claimed to be equal; simpletons, some say, but equal man to man.","author":"Allan Dare Pearce","tags":["equality","world-war-ii"],"id":7329,"author_id":"Allan+Dare+Pearce"},{"text":"The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?","author":"Anne Frank","tags":["art","childhood","history","holocaust","innocence","inspirational","life","living-life","world-war-2","world-war-ii","writing"],"id":11224,"author_id":"Anne+Frank"},{"text":"Life in a prison cell may well be compared to Advent; one waits, hopes, and does this, that, or the other- things that are of no real consequence- the door is shut, and can be opened only from the outside.',Letters from Prison - November 21, 1943.","author":"Dietrech Bonhoeffer","tags":["advent","justice","prison","prisoner","world-war-ii"],"id":14534,"author_id":"Dietrech+Bonhoeffer"},{"text":"Although Higgins's men had finally received some badly needed supplies, some of his wounded were becoming critical, and the overall health of his troops continued to ebb. Meanwhile, the price among the 442nd's battalions paid to reach Higgins's men had reached gut-wrenching levels. And for General Dahlquist, panic would supplant his anger and frustration.","author":"Scott McGaugh","tags":["442nd","dahlquist","hero","history","japanese-american","military","world-war-ii","wwii"],"id":15279,"author_id":"Scott+McGaugh"},{"text":"I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since Belgorod, terror had overturned all my preconceptions, and the pace of life had been so intense one no longer knew what elements of ordinary life to abandon in order to maintain some semblance of balance. I was still unresigned to the idea of death, but I had already sworn to myself during moments of intense fear that I would exchange anything - fortune, love, even a limb - if I could simply survive.","author":"Guy Sajer","tags":["death","fortune","life","love","soldier","survive","war","world-war-ii"],"id":16167,"author_id":"Guy+Sajer"},{"text":"They were our enemies. Yet in those young men of Italy I'd seen something centuries old. An American is only as old as his years. A long line of something was hidden behind the bright eyes of those Italians. And then and there I decided to learn something of the modern world. There was something abroad which we Americans couldn't or wouldn't understand. But unless we made some attempt to realize that everyone in the world isn't American, and that not everything American is good, we'll all perish together, and in this twentieth century....","author":"John Horne Burns","tags":["america","americans","italians","old-world","war","world-war-ii"],"id":20176,"author_id":"John+Horne+Burns"},{"text":"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it. It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects. Everyone writes of them in one guise or another. It is simply a question of which side one takes and what approach one follows. And the more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["biases","democracy","essayist","on-writing","political","politics","purpose","totalitarianism","world-war-ii"],"id":22173,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"The descent to barbarism had begun with Rotterdam. It ended with Dresden and then with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Whatever moral differences had existed when the war began were erased by its end. The victors had been morally conquered by the enemy.","author":"David McReynolds","tags":["morality","war-and-peace","world-war-ii"],"id":30088,"author_id":"David+McReynolds"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":99,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}