Books Quote by Tamlyn Tomita

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

My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize

— Anonymous

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

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

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

— George Takei

My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens…

— Mike Shinoda

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

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

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

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

— George Takei

In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside…

— J. G. Ballard

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