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I lost everything when they put us in prison. I was an enemy alien, a man without a country.Fred Korematsu
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If anyone should do any pardoning. I should be the one pardoning the government for what they did to the Japanese-American people.Fred Korematsu
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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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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.Fred Korematsu
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All of them turned their backs on me at that time because they thought I was a troublemaker.Fred Korematsu
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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.Fred Korematsu
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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.Fred Korematsu
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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'.Fred Korematsu
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Every day in school, we said the pledge to the flag, 'with liberty and justice for all,' and I believed all that.Fred Korematsu
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