Author: Fred Korematsu

Quotes

It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it.

It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it.

- Fred Korematsu

If anyone should do any pardoning. I should be the one pardoning the government for what they did to the Japanese-American people.

If anyone should do any pardoning. I should be the one pardoning the government for what they did to the Japanese-American people.

- Fred Korematsu

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.

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

I didn't think that the government would go as far as to include American citizens to be interned without a hearing.

I didn't think that the government would go as far as to include American citizens to be interned without a hearing.

- Fred Korematsu

All of them turned their backs on me at that time because they thought I was a troublemaker.

All of them turned their backs on me at that time because they thought I was a troublemaker.

- Fred Korematsu

I don't even know how it is to have a home. I feel like an orphan or something.

I don't even know how it is to have a home. I feel like an orphan or something.

- Fred Korematsu

It takes a lot of money to hire an attorney.

It takes a lot of money to hire an attorney.

- Fred Korematsu

I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do.

I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do.

- Fred Korematsu

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