29 Quotes by Fred Korematsu

One person can make a difference, even if it takes forty years.

Every day in school, we said the pledge to the flag, 'with liberty and justice for all,' and I believed all that.

I still remember, 40 years ago, when I was shackled and put in prison... Being an American citizen didn't mean a thing.

I'm Asian, so they assumed I'm not an American and that I come from Japan. Restaurants would refuse to serve me, and places would refuse to give you a haircut.

I was an American citizen, and I had as many rights as anyone else.

If anyone should do any pardoning. I should be the one pardoning the government for what they did to the Japanese-American people.

I don't even know how it is to have a home. I feel like an orphan or something.

As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without a trial or a hearing.

I was really upset because I was branded as an enemy alien when I'm an American.