Country Quote by Richard Cohen

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

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

Every new refugee to a society, whether it's the United States or some other place, is subjected to fear. They are the new outsider…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

As children my grandparents were refugees. Eventually they got to the U.S. - in 1950 or something. They grew up as refugees. Their earliest…

— Ezra Furman

I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a young adolescent…

— Lois Lowry

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

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

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

Many people who are forced into emigration suffer and often die tragically; many of their rights are violated, they are obliged to separate from…

— Pope Francis

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

“Thousands died in internment, where hardships and brutalities often far exceeded those experienced during the Nazi regime. Note”

— Ingrid Dixon

We know that there were so many Japanese American soldiers in World War II who were fighting in Europe despite the fact that their…

— Tamlyn Tomita