Internment Quotations

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?'

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.

During World War II, law-abiding Japanese-American citizens were herded into remote internment camps, losing their jobs, businesses and social standing, while an all-Japanese-American division fought heroically in Europe.

So I've been a political activist all my life and I think in a large measure it's because of the internment that we experienced 50 years ago.

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.

I didn't want to talk about being in an internment camp, ... They would ask me, where was I? I would say I was far away...But I never went into details.

He felt responsible for the internment in a sort of backhanded way, because his case had been lost in the Supreme Court.

There is an urgent need to provide remedy to lengthy internment for security reasons without adequate judicial oversight,

Within a couple of days I got a job with Jack Binder's agency. Jack Binder had a loft on Fifth Avenue and it just looked like an internment camp.