Internment Quotes

I went to school in a black tar-paper barrack (as a child in internment camps) and began the day seeing the barbed-wire fence, and thank god those barbed-wire fences are now long gone for Japanese Americans. But I still see an invisible, legalistic barbed-wire that keeps me, my partner of 19 years, Brad Altman, and another group of Americans separated from a normal life. That`s what I`ve been advocating on the Human Rights Campaign Equality Tour--I call it the Equality Trek." (during a 2006 interview with Scott Simon on National Public Radio)

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

So I`ve been a political activist all my life and I think in a large measure it`s because of the internment that we experienced 50 years ago.

You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.