Korematsu V Quotes & Sayings

Activist Supreme Courts are not new. The Dred Scott decision in 1856, imposing slavery in free territories; the Plessy decision in 1896, imposing segregation on a private railroad company; the Korematsu decision in 1944, upholding Franklin Roosevelt's internment of American citizens, mostly Japanese Americans; and the Roe decision in 1973, imposing abortion on the entire nation; are examples of the consequences of activist Courts and justices. — Mark Levin

It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath
It will be short, it will not be simple — Adrienne Rich

When you dream big, you eventually attract big things. — Gina Carano

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

They had no curiousity about him at all. As if they knew all that they needed to know. They stood and watched him pass and watched him vanish upon that landscape solely because he was passing. Solely because he would vanish. — Cormac McCarthy

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

I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon. — Ezra Cornell

I've never been in love. I know, it's weird. — Diane Warren

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors. — Joseph Campbell

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. — Fred Korematsu

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

No one is in charge of your happiness except you. — Regina Brett

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

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

I don't mind having a big beautiful door in that wall so that people can come into this country legally. I don't mind having a big beautiful door in that wall so that people can come into this country legally. — Donald Trump

And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened,
If still they live, rove through the world now saddened. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I thought what the military was doing was unconstitutional. — Fred Korematsu

neither the NAACP nor any other predominantly African American organization filed an amicus brief challenging Japanese internment in the World War II case of Korematsu v. United States. — Richard Delgado