Infamy Quotes

“What the maps did not show was that Japanese farmers and workers had usually been there for decades, even generations, before the bases and other facilities were built.”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“San Francisco Chronicle went the other way for three days, editorializing: “It is not necessary to imitate Hitler by herding whole populations, the guilty and the innocent together into even humane concentration camps.”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“The 442nd, exhausted and undermanned—the casualty list was over two thousand wounded and killed in just four weeks in the Vosges campaign—was”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“There were few men in press or politics willing to stand up for the rights of the Japanese living on the West Coast. The Santa Ana Register in Orange County,”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“He lost that command because he made clear that he thought the commander of the America-backed Kuomintang, Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, was simply a corrupt warlord fighting not the Japanese but his great rival the Communist Mao Tse-tung. In the end, Washington sided with Chiang and Stilwell was recalled.”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“Back at Santa Anita, a five-year-old boy, George Takei, who later became a famous actor, was fond of the searchlights. He thought they were there to help him find his way to the latrine and back—rather than to prevent him from escaping.”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“after visiting the Santa Anita Assembly Center, quoted a small girl she had overheard talking to her mother: “I am tired of Japan, Mother. Let’s go back to America.”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“Riku, was harassed by scavengers wanting to buy her best dishes, worth about $200. One by one, she took the dishes out of their velvet jackets and smashed them at the men’s feet.”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“Honolulu’s police chief William Gabrielson and Lieutenant General Delos Emmons, the army commander in Hawaii, stating that there were no acts of sabotage preceding or during the attack on Pearl Harbor.”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“Hoover wrote, “The necessity for mass evacuation is based primarily upon public and political pressure rather than on factual data.”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“A small number of national columnists and commentators in other cities also resisted the California hysteria, among them Ernie Pyle of Scripps Howard and Chester Rowell,”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“Estelle Ishigo”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“Ron Dellums, the Oakland boy who tried to stop”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“There is also a thirty-ton monument to him in the “Champions of Justice” Gallery in Oakland, California, along with Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“battle. The”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“The Lost Battalion’s final radio transmission was, “Patrol 442 here. Tell them we love them.”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“General Mark Clark, who had served in Hawaii, was one of the few military men willing to say that he thought evacuation of the 160,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans on the islands was not necessary. He also said the chances of a Japanese attack on the West Coast was”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“February 5, 1942,”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“R. C. Hoiles,”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II