“There was too much history he’d like to forget, but his memories were on the surface today, closer even than the woman across from him. For a single heartbeat the shop faded and Slocan appeared: huts in rows, men and women like cattle within its fenced boundaries.” MysteryDanika StoneWatertonInternment CampsDark Divide Book:The Dark Divide Source: The Dark Divide
“In the pages that follow I hope that readers similarly struggle to find their own balance within a history of injustice. Such pasts should be unsettling.” World War IiInternmentInternment CampsJapanese Canadian Author:Jordan Stanger-Ross
“Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.” SometimesTodayAdversityWho I AmInternmentInternment Camps Author:Ruth Asawa
“The Constitution contains no 'dignity' Clause, and even if it did, the government would be incapable of bestowing dignity. ... Slaves did not lose their dignity (any more than they lost their humanity) because the government allowed them to be enslaved. Those held in internment camps did not lose their dignity because the government confined them. And those denied governmental benefits certainly do not lose their dignity because the government denies them those benefits.” IfsGovernmentWould BeHumanityLostLosesBenefitsDignityConstitutionSlaveDenyCampsDeniedIncapableRulingGay MarriageConfinedDissentClausesCourt DecisionInternmentInternment Camps Author:Clarence 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 FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps.” IfsLooksPresidentOrganizationDataCampsAmerican HistoryRequestFbiCensusInternmentPresident RooseveltInternment CampsCensus Bureau Author:Michele Bachmann
“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 the Civil War, Alien and Sedition Acts in World War I, or Japanese internment camps in World War II, presidents have gone too far.” WorldWarNationsPresidentGoneIssuesAliensWar Of The WorldsCivil WarPrivacyExecutivesCampsWorld War IiWorld War ICorpusExecutive PowerInternmentHabeas CorpusDuring The Civil WarInternment CampsPersonal Privacy Author:Dick Durbin
“You can't be citing Japanese internment camps for anything the president elect is going to do!” PresidentCampsCitingInternmentInternment Camps Author: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 in the United States.” StatesStoriesFilmUnitedUnited StatesCampsWwiiTrue StoryFortsInternmentInternment Camps Author:Eric Stoltz
“You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.” KnowsTwoYoungGrewGrew UpCampsInternmentInternment Camps Author:George Takei
“I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.” PeopleWantedLife IsBehindsShareCampsFenceWireBoyhoodBarbed WireInternmentInternment Camps Author: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 camps in the United States.” StatesAmericaMotherFatherUnitedUnited StatesTakenMonthsSixCaliforniaCampsSix MonthsMother And FatherSacramentoInternmentInternment Camps Author:Bob Matsui