American history Quote by Michele Bachmann

Growing up, I didn't know about the Japanese internment camps until I saw a movie of the week as an adult. I remember going,…

— Adina Porter

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

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

— Megyn Kelly

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

My mother's family was among the 120,000 people of Japanese descent on the West Coast who were dispatched to internment camps during World War II.

— Michiko Kakutani

The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the…

— Helen Thomas

When I was trying to figure out how the government might go about creating the camps in 'The Darkest Minds,' I researched the Japanese…

— Alexandra Bracken

I remember reading one of those big history texts in elementary school, and in that whole book there was one paragraph that mentioned that…

— Tamlyn Tomita

I think the important thing to remember about the Japanese internment is the situation. We had been attacked. Maybe Roosevelt expected it - I…

— William A. Rusher

Most Japanese-Americans have that legacy. The camp experience is something of a calling card between them. They say, 'So, where were you interned?'

— Tamlyn Tomita

Our country undergoes periodic episodes of extreme intolerance and fear of foreigners, refugees in particular. Not only were people of Japanese descent placed in…

— Richard Cohen

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

— George Takei