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and would only serve himself when the truth and honor are at stake, is making a bad bargain. It is our attitude toward these that will determine the attitude taken towards us by other Americans. 
In this war, old quarrels have lost meaning and former adversaries are on the same side, facing the same enemy. This identity of purpose forms a basis for the breaking down of national, racial, and religious, barriers. 
This has a vital meaning to us--people of Japanese descent living in America, who have all been hoping an dreaming for so long  that the time would come when we would be free to live without bitterness, in a total democracy. 
Neither pride nor sensitivity, fear nor ignorance,sentimentality, nor superstition, should hinder us from taking part in the fight for mankind,-.... In the hope in another spring, or it may take many, many springs, to see justice, human equality, and freedom from oppression, throughout the world.

Yasuo Kuniyoshi 
Speech for J.A.C.D.
April 15, 1942