Fred Korematsu famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up
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I thought what the military was doing was unconstitutional.
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I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do.
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It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it.
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No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race, ethnicity, or religion as a spy or terrorist. If that principle was not learned from the internment of Japanese Americans, then these are very dangerous times for our democracy.
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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 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.
-- Fred Korematsu
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On Tuesday, when it hails and snows, The feeling on me grows and grows That hardly anybody knows If those are these or these are those.
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When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.
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One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.
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I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.
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I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again.
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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
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Now everyone has a license to speak, it’s a question of who gets heard.
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How do I speak Spanish? Not too well.
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The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate.
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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