Camps Quote by Helen Thomas

If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the…

— Michele Bachmann

The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative, driven by…

— Michael Ignatieff

It is sobering to recall that though the Japanese relocation program, carried through at such incalculable cost in misery and tragedy, was justified on…

— Henry Steele Commager

One thing that does seem to me to be fairly consistent is that presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged…

— David Greenberg

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

— Megyn Kelly

Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.

— John Perkins

If Roosevelt were alive he'd turn in his grave.

— Samuel Goldwyn, Jr

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…

— Tom Brokaw

“Kuribayashi had the benefit of having traveled in the United States, and he had even attended Harvard for a short time. In his travels,…

— Charles River Editors

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States uprooted more than 100,000 people of Japanese descent, most of them American citizens, and confined…

— Neal Katyal

“Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Roosevelt was at his most impassioned when commented on the sadistic quality of lynchings: There are certain hideous sights which when once seen can…

— Edmund Morris