Noun
Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation. Fernando Pessoa
February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II. Xavier Becerra
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. George Takei
You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young. George Takei
The majority should not be allowed to rule simply because its the majority. The majority is responsible for slavery, segregation, lynching, denying women and minorities the vote, Japanese internment and a million other injustices and inhumanities. Margaret Cho
Our nation has had similar dark moments for the virtues of democracy -- the Trail of Tears, the Dred Scott decision, McCarthyism, and the Japanese-American internment camps -- to mention a few. I am confident that many of the actions since 9/11 will one day be viewed in a similar light. Chelsea Manning