Internment Camps Quotes

• 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.

  Bob Matsui

  Mother, Father, Taken

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• 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.

  Michele Bachmann

  Data, Census Bureau, Organization

  "Bachmann Warns Of Link Between Census, Japanese Internment". Fox News Interview, talkingpointsmemo.com. June 25, 2009.

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• 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.

  George Takei

  People, Wire, Boyhood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Constitution contains no 'dignity' Clause, and even if it did, the government would be incapable of bestowing dignity. ... Slaves did not lose their dignity (any more than they lost their humanity) because the government allowed them to be enslaved. Those held in internment camps did not lose their dignity because the government confined them. And those denied governmental benefits certainly do not lose their dignity because the government denies them those benefits.

  Clarence Thomas

  Government, Humanity, Gay Marriage

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• 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.

  Eric Stoltz

  Stories, United States, Film

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• You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

  George Takei

  Two, Grew Up, Young

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Ruth Asawa

  Adversity, Who I Am, Today

  "The Irrationality of Love and Art" by George Heymont, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2011.

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• 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.

  Dick Durbin

  War, Issues, President

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• You can't be citing Japanese internment camps for anything the president elect is going to do!

  Megyn Kelly

  President, Citing, Camps

  "And Now We’re Talking About Internment Camps?" by Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn, www.motherjones.com. November 17, 2016.

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