Family Quote by Michiko Kakutani

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

— George Takei

I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment…

— Anonymous

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

— Megyn Kelly

I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually…

— Eric Stoltz

There is also the issue of personal privacy when it comes the executive power. Throughout our nation's history, whether it was habeas corpus during…

— Dick Durbin

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

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted…

— George Takei

After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people…

— Naomi Klein

I can't think of the last Asian that I ran into that talked about internment camps. But black people always want to talk to…

— Candace Owens

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

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

The Constitution contains no 'dignity' Clause, and even if it did, the government would be incapable of bestowing dignity. ... Slaves did not lose…

— Clarence 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

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

February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and…

— Xavier Becerra