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"No payment can make up for those lost years. So, what is most important in this bill has less to do with property than with honor. For here we admit a wrong: here we reaffirm our commitment as a nation to equal justice under the law."
-- President Ronald Reagan, 1988
President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing apology and $20,000 to the living Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II. |