Fred Korematsu

“I was just an ordinary citizen who was caught up in something that was wrong.”

“No one should be interned in a concentration camp because of their ancestry.”

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

“Protest, but not with violence.”

“What happened to me, and to others like me, should never happen again to anyone, of any race, religion, or color.”

“I would have been the last one to be chosen to play a hero, but I guess you never know.”

“As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without a trial or hearing. I would like to see the government admit they were wrong and do something about it, so this will never happen again to any American citizen of any race, creed or color.”

“All of us have a constitutional right to be wherever we want to be, and I felt that the government was wrong in trying to deny me that right.”

“According to the Supreme Court, the government had the right to do what it did. But the Supreme Court also said that I was a loyal American citizen.”

“I didn't feel that I had to go to an internment camp. I was an American citizen. I had rights.”