What I’m Reading: Farewell to Manzanar – 6 in a series – “…a man with no rights who looked exactly like the enemy.”

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This new series is an ongoing collection of quotes from the books I am currently reading. — Douglas

“He had become a man without a country. The land of his birth was at war with America; yet after thirty-five years here he was still prevented by law from becoming an American citizen. He was suddenly a man with no rights who looked exactly like the enemy.”

From Farwell to Manzanar by by Jeanne Wakatsuki Housto and James D. Houston

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