You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young. Votes: 4
Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am. Votes: 4
I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States. Votes: 4
I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people. Votes: 4
February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II. Votes: 4
If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps. Votes: 4
I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater. Votes: 2
The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era. Votes: 2
I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States. Votes: 2
If liberals had been in charge of the Arizona memorial, it would probably have featured an exhaustive exhibit about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and little about the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Votes: 2
No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race, ethnicity, or religion as a spy or terrorist. If that principle was not learned from the internment of Japanese Americans, then these are very dangerous times for our democracy. Votes: 2
In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation. Votes: 2
I look at my grandparents and what they dealt with in the Japanese internment in Arizona. That sense of perseverance, of making the best out of an incredibly bad situation, has always been something I drew inspiration from. I always ask myself, 'What in the world do I have to complain about?' Votes: 2
There was not one cause for our internment, but many - a deep-seated racial prejudice working on top of fear, distrust, and greed. So how is one to say exactly where history begins or ends? It is all slow oscillations, curves, and waves which take so long to reveal themselves ... like watching a tree grow. Votes: 2
Activist Supreme Courts are not new. The Dred Scott decision in 1856, imposing slavery in free territories; the Plessy decision in 1896, imposing segregation on a private railroad company; the Korematsu decision in 1944, upholding Franklin Roosevelt's internment of American citizens, mostly Japanese Americans; and the Roe decision in 1973, imposing abortion on the entire nation; are examples of the consequences of activist Courts and justices. Votes: 2
We entered a synagogue which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. Either these Displaced Persons never had any sense of decency or else they lost it all during their period of internment by the Germans.... My personal opinion is that no people could have sunk to the level of degradation these have reached in the short space of four years. Votes: 2
You can't be citing Japanese internment camps for anything the president elect is going to do! Votes: 0
You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young." Votes: 0
I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people." Votes: 0
There is also the issue of personal privacy when it comes the executive power. Throughout our nation's history, whether it was habeas corpus during the Civil War, Alien and Sedition Acts in World War I, or Japanese internment camps in World War II, presidents have gone too far.
You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young. Votes: 2 George Takei