Fred Korematsu

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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