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Nya citat 2005-07-27
...every day we wait, the evil poison will spread more and more over the provinces, penetrate into the minds of the young, and inevitably produce unfathomable evils.
Yamagata Aritomo, leader in the Meiji governments, on the surge of popular rights agitation in Japan, 1879
We always obeyed the law. Isn’t that what you do in America? Even if you don’t agree with a law personally, you still obey it. Otherwise life would be chaos.
Gertrude Scholtz-Klink, chief of the Women's Bureau under Hitler, explaining the Jewish policy of the Nazis
...frankly trying to put them out on the ground that their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese. This latter is the fact but I am afraid it will make a tremendous hole in our constitutional system to apply it.
Henry Stimson, U.S. Secretary of War, on the alternatives to the internment of U.S. Japanese during WWII
Democracy, as Americans understand it, is not necessarily the future of all mankind, nor is it the duty of the U.S. government to assure that it becomes that.
George Kennan, head of U.S. State Department Policy Planning Staff, 1948
If the military says something, I strongly urge all journalists to heed it. It is in your own interests, and your family's interests. And I mean that.
White House spokesman Ari Fleisher, February 28 2003, urging journalists to get out of Baghdad before the fighting began
The propaganda system allows the U.S. leadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in fact, major war criminals like Henry Kissinger appear regularly on TV to comment on the crimes of the derivative butchers.
Edward Herman, 1999
We had kicked over the anthill ... the ants were running about in confusion. Now was the time to stamp on them.
General Slim, Great Britain's commander in the Burma campaigns, on the offensive against the Japanese forces
Flamethrowers, mortars, grenades and bayonets have proven to be an effective remedy. But before a complete cure may be effected the origin of the plague, the breeding grounds around the Tokyo area, must be completely annihilated.
Text explaining a comic picture of the "Louseous Japanicas", a grotesque insect, in the U.S. Marines magazine Leatherneck
Many of the Japanese soldiers I have seen have been primitive oxen-like clods dulled eyes and foreheads an inch high ... They have stayed at their positions and died simply because they have been told to do so, and they haven't the intelligence to think for themselves.
Australian war correspondent, 1944
...the Japs we will be worried about all the time until they are wiped off the face of the map.
Lieutenant General John L. de Witt, on the reasons why Germans and Italians could be treated as individuals while Japanese where interned simply because of their ancestry
...a good solution to the Jap problem would be to send them all back to Japan, then sink the island. They live like rats, breed like rats and act like rats.
The governor of Idaho, on better alternative than to build internment camps for U.S. Japanese in his state
A Jap's a Jap ... You can't change him by giving him a piece of paper.
Lieutenant General John L. De Witt, who administered the internment of U.S. Japanese
Japan has within 40 years gone through the various administrative phases that occupied England about 800 years and Rome about 600, and I am loath to say that anything impossible with her.
Lord Charles Beresford, April 1895
A viper is nonetheless a viper wherever the egg is hatched — so a Japanese-American, born of Japanese parents, grows up to be a Japanese not an American.
The Los Angeles Times, about the internment of U.S. Japanese during WWII
In Europe we felt that our enemies, horrible and deadly as they were, were still people ... But out here I soon gathered that the Japanese were looked upon as something subhuman and repulsive; the way some people feel about cockroaches or mice.
Ernie Pyle, war correspondent
The only good Jap is a Jap who's been dead six months ... When we get to Tokyo, where we're bound to get eventually, we'll have a little celebration where Tokyo was.
Admiral William F. Halsey, 1944
Once a Jap, always a Jap ... You can't any more regenerate a Jap than you can reverse the laws of nature.
John Rankin, Mississippi, member of the House of Representatives, on why the U.S. Japanese should be interned even to the third and fourth generation
Sesame seeds and peasants are very much alike. The more you squeeze them, the more you can extract from them.
Old motto from the Tokugawa period
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