[She raises her head and speaks slowly, haltingly, as she tries to remember the wording.] "I show the utmost consideration for my fellow human beings, but you aren't human, are you?" [She practically spits out the last part.] Any time they want something from us, there are Orerines who don't care what they do to us to get it. They don't care -- I'm not a human, but I'm not a monster!

[Of course, Sokka's only getting part of the story. Fenimore has no idea that the knight captain she's quoting is actually kind of a douche to everyone, she doesn't quite understand the reprehensible power struggle that is motivating some of the atrocities, and she would never learn back home about what the Ferines would try to do to the Orerines in turn. And there are many details about the first meeting between Ferines and Orerines that are lost to everyone. But, for her, this is the truth.]