Quotes by Fred Korematsu - Page 1

It takes a lot of money to hire an attorney.
Fred Korematsu /
Attorney
Hire
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I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do.
Fred Korematsu /
Just Living Life
Living My Life
Wanted
Life My Life Living
Just Living
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I thought what the military was doing was unconstitutional.
Fred Korematsu /
Military
Unconstitutional
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One person can make a difference, even if it takes forty years.
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Forty
Years
Difference
Even
Forty Years
Make A Difference
Takes
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I was an American citizen, and I had as many rights as anyone else.
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Rights
American Citizen
Anyone
Anyone Else
Citizen
Else
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It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it.
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May
Prove
Sticks
Take Time
Take
Right
Stick
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If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up
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Feelings
Ifs
Speak
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If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up.
Fred Korematsu /
Speak
Afraid
Wrong
Feeling
Something
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I don't even know how it is to have a home. I feel like an orphan or something.
Fred Korematsu /
Orphan
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I was really upset because I was branded as an enemy alien when I'm an American.
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Branded
Enemy
Upset
Alien
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I was very upset because I did not have a fair trial to prove my loyalty to this country.
Fred Korematsu /
Loyalty
Fair Trial
Upset
Trial
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I was the third son, and the family tradition was my dad always favored the oldest child.
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Family Tradition
Son
Family Dad Always
Favored
Oldest
Third
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I lost everything when they put us in prison. I was an enemy alien, a man without a country.
Fred Korematsu /
Enemy
Lost
Prison
Alien
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All of them turned their backs on me at that time because they thought I was a troublemaker.
Fred Korematsu /
Troublemaker
Time Me Because
Backs
Turned
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As a citizen of the United States, I am ready, willing, and able to bear arms for this country.
Fred Korematsu /
Arms
Ready
Willing
Bear
Citizen
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Every day in school, we said the pledge to the flag, 'with liberty and justice for all,' and I believed all that.
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Justice
Liberty
Pledge
Believed
Every Day
Flag
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I didn't think that the government would go as far as to include American citizens to be interned without a hearing.
Fred Korematsu /
American Citizens
Include
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I still remember, 40 years ago, when I was shackled and put in prison... Being an American citizen didn't mean a thing.
Fred Korematsu /
Prison
Years Ago
American Citizen
Citizen
Shackled
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As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without a trial or a hearing.
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Camps
Concentration
Court
Hearing
Prison
American Citizen
Citizen
Federal
Held
Stands
Trial
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I'm Asian, so they assumed I'm not an American and that I come from Japan. Restaurants would refuse to serve me, and places would refuse to give you a haircut.
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Asian
Japan
Refuse
Restaurants
Assumed
Haircut
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That was it - I lost my job... I was very discouraged. I wanted to be in defense work... I'm an American, and I have nothin' to do with Japan, and so it's sort of an insult to me.
Fred Korematsu /
Defense
Discouraged
Insult
Japan
Nothin
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My folks were so worried about what they were going to do. All they can take was what they could carry with their hands. What they had for twenty-five years of building their business was going to go out the door, or they're going to lose it.
Fred Korematsu /
Folks
Twenty Five
Worried
Carry
Door
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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.
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Religion
Democracy
Ethnicity
Race
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During the curfew, whoever went out, the people were watching you. Any Japanese home, there was some person figuring he's a good American citizen by doing his duty, and they were watching every move each family were doin'. Or if they went out, they followed them to see where they were goin'.
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Duty
Family Good Home
American Citizen
Citizen
Doin
Figuring
Followed
Goin
Japanese
Whoever
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As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without trial or hearing. I would like to see the government admit they were wrong and do something about it, so this will never happen again to any American citizen of any race, creed, or color.
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Government
Color
Race
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Before the war, my parents were very proud people. They'd always talk about Japan and also about the samurai and things like that. Right after Pearl Harbor, they were just real quiet. They kept to themselves; they were afraid to talk about what could happen. I assume they knew that nothing good would come out of it.
Fred Korematsu /
War
Japan
Proud
Quiet
Samurai
Good Always People
War Good Always
Talk
War Good People
Afraid
Assume
Happen
Harbor
Parents
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
Themselves
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