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Erna P. Harris
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“Ever since the evacuation of Americans of Japanese ancestry and Japanese along the Pacific Coast was proposed, I have pointed out that the issue was one of race and on that basis affected anyone who was physically distinguishable as ‘colored’”
Erna P. Harris (1908–1995) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (February 7, 1944).
“To visit evacuation [evacuated] neighborhoods and talk with neighbors of the ‘evil, treacherous, fifth column menaces’ who are being summarily moved away, who have been adjudged guilty without any trial at which to claim innocence was to acknowledge an event with all earmarks of a legalized community lynching.”
Erna P. Harris (1908–1995) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: spring 1942.
“Friends, this is how Hitler made little Nazis: by reaching the children and youth through stories and pictures, he taught them to fear and hate certain groups”
Erna P. Harris (1908–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Americans of Chinese ancestry share in disproportionate measure the apprehension of other non-Whites with regard to the summary treatment of Americans of Japanese ancestry. Tightening of residential restrictions against them, for instance, in the neighborhood surrounding San Francisco’s ‘Chinatown’ gives basis for their fears.”
Erna P. Harris (1908–1995) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In February 1946 she complained in her Los Angeles Tribune column that all the events for Brotherhood Week that year were being hosted by whites
“Joint hosts on the negroes’ invitation would be Nisei, American Indians and other Americans whose physical characteristics make them detectable. I have heard of no such observance during Brotherhood week.”
Erna P. Harris (1908–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Through friends and newspapers I have maintained a fairly close contact with the evacuee-victims of our lack of confidence in American education and government agencies. On Christmas Eve it was my pleasure to have as a houseguest an old friend who is teaching in the relocation center at Poston. I hasten to suggest that Mr. Leffingwell could find among the Japanese and Nisei internees some real characters whose story, recounted by him in picture, would set before his small readers an example of courage, sensitivity, forgiveness and humility such as would set his cartoon aside from the petty humdrum of its fellows.”
Erna P. Harris (1908–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source