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" 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. "

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" I was very upset because I did not have a fair trial to prove my loyalty to this country. "

" I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do. "

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" All of them turned their backs on me at that time because they thought I was a troublemaker. "

" That was it - I lost my job... I was very discouraged. I wanted to be in defense work... I'm an American, and I have nothin' to do with Japan, and so it's sort of an insult to me. "

Fred Korematsu

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" I was born in the U.S. This is my country. "

" I lost everything when they put us in prison. I was an enemy alien, a man without a country. "

" Before the war, my parents were very proud people. They'd always talk about Japan and also about the samurai and things like that. Right after Pearl Harbor, they were just real quiet. They kept to themselves; they were afraid to talk about what could happen. I assume they knew that nothing good would come out of it. "

" It takes a lot of money to hire an attorney. "

" I was the third son, and the family tradition was my dad always favored the oldest child. "

" I didn't think that the government would go as far as to include American citizens to be interned without a hearing. "

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

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

Fred Korematsu

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" I thought what the military was doing was unconstitutional. "

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

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

" If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up. "

" My folks were so worried about what they were going to do. All they can take was what they could carry with their hands. What they had for twenty-five years of building their business was going to go out the door, or they're going to lose it. "

" During the curfew, whoever went out, the people were watching you. Any Japanese home, there was some person figuring he's a good American citizen by doing his duty, and they were watching every move each family were doin'. Or if they went out, they followed them to see where they were goin'. "

" It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it. "

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