Fred Korematsu Quotes

If anyone should do any pardoning. I should be the one pardoning the government for what they did to the Japanese-American people.

Fred Korematsu

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• I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.

  

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• It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.

  

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• If anyone should do any pardoning. I should be the one pardoning the government for what they did to the Japanese-American people.

  

  Fred Korematsu
  • People
  • American
  • Japanese