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“What the maps did not show was that Japanese farmers and workers had usually been there for decades, even generations, before the bases and other facilities were built.”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“San Francisco Chronicle went the other way for three days, editorializing: “It is not necessary to imitate Hitler by herding whole populations, the guilty and the innocent together into even humane concentration camps.”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“But my argument is not that we should be doing less to attract women into STEM; it is that we should be doing as much to encourage men into HEAL.”
― Richard Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

“The 442nd, exhausted and undermanned—the casualty list was over two thousand wounded and killed in just four weeks in the Vosges campaign—was”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“There were few men in press or politics willing to stand up for the rights of the Japanese living on the West Coast. The Santa Ana Register in Orange County,”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“We face labor shortages in two of the largest and most important sectors of our economy—health care and education. But we are trying to solve them with only half the workforce.”
― Richard Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

“A small number of national columnists and commentators in other cities also resisted the California hysteria, among them Ernie Pyle of Scripps Howard and Chester Rowell,”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“He lost that command because he made clear that he thought the commander of the America-backed Kuomintang, Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, was simply a corrupt warlord fighting not the Japanese but his great rival the Communist Mao Tse-tung. In the end, Washington sided with Chiang and Stilwell was recalled.”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“Riku, was harassed by scavengers wanting to buy her best dishes, worth about $200. One by one, she took the dishes out of their velvet jackets and smashed them at the men’s feet.”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“Child support payments should be set with greater sensitivity to a father’s ability to pay, and considering their nonmonetary contributions, including the direct provision of care for their children. Oregon, for example, has a “parenting time credit” that reduces child support payments made by a noncustodial parent if they spend more time caring for their children.”
― Richard Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

“Specifically, I argue the following: (1) the male role has long been culturally defined as that of a provider, and based on the economic dependence of mothers on men; (2) this traditional role has been dismantled by the securing of economic independence by women; (3) culture and policy are stuck on an obsolete model of fatherhood, lagging way behind economic reality; and (4) this is resulting in a 'dad deficit,' with men increasingly unable to fulfill the traditional breadwinner role but yet to step up into a new one.”
― Richard Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

“after visiting the Santa Anita Assembly Center, quoted a small girl she had overheard talking to her mother: “I am tired of Japan, Mother. Let’s go back to America.”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“The second reason to get more men into HEAL jobs is to help meet the growing demand for labor in occupations like nursing and teaching. Almost half of all registered nurses are now over the age of 50. This means many are likely to retire over the next 15 years, especially if they are under greater stress at work.”
― Richard Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

“Back at Santa Anita, a five-year-old boy, George Takei, who later became a famous actor, was fond of the searchlights. He thought they were there to help him find his way to the latrine and back—rather than to prevent him from escaping.”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“Hoover wrote, “The necessity for mass evacuation is based primarily upon public and political pressure rather than on factual data.”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“It is an axiom of politics that if there are real problems that responsible people aren't addressing, irresponsible people will exploit them.”
― Richard Reeves

“Honolulu’s police chief William Gabrielson and Lieutenant General Delos Emmons, the army commander in Hawaii, stating that there were no acts of sabotage preceding or during the attack on Pearl Harbor.”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“Progressives resist the idea that fathers have a distinct role to play, afraid that this will somehow undermine mothers or belittle same-sex couples. So they recoil from any proposal that might smack of “fathers’ rights.” Conservatives meanwhile lament an epidemic of fatherlessness but simply want to restore traditional marriage, with clear and separate roles for men and women.”
― Richard Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

“The Lost Battalion’s final radio transmission was, “Patrol 442 here. Tell them we love them.”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“General Mark Clark, who had served in Hawaii, was one of the few military men willing to say that he thought evacuation of the 160,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans on the islands was not necessary. He also said the chances of a Japanese attack on the West Coast was”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“February 5, 1942,”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“The speech began by comparing Mark Rudd, a leader of student demonstrations at Columbia, with George Wallace, the segregationist governor of Alabama: “Both … stand in the schoolroom door, and seen from the vantage point of the academy they both hold the same low view of reasoned discourse. They believe that force ought to be substituted for sweet reason, that power ought to replace persuasion and that only ‘socially approved’ voices and views should be heard. They believe that toleration is a weakness rather than a strength in intellectual enquiry and they are in the deepest sense of the word anti-intellectual. They aim at nothing less than the destruction of the life of reason. The university and the parent society have no alternative to repression.”
― Richard Reeves, President Nixon: Alone in the White House

“Finally, granting nontransferable parental leave to fathers will encourage and allow men to become equal partners on the home front. To support a more direct model of fatherhood, we need to think of parental leave as an individual benefit rather than a family one. The evidence suggests that providing father-only “use it or lose it” leave policies significantly increases take-up rates among dads.”
― Richard Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

“There is also a thirty-ton monument to him in the “Champions of Justice” Gallery in Oakland, California, along with Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“In a study of cases in Wisconsin, Maria Cancian and others show a decline in the proportion of mothers being awarded sole physical custody from 80% in 1986 to 42% in 2008.”
― Richard Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

“[A friendship] is a relationship of genuine and radical equality, and one in which you're not in the friendship in order to get something out of it yourself. [...] The definition of a friendship is a relationship, where there is nothing in it for you, other than the relationship. [Source: 'The friendship recession | Richard Reeves' YouTube Video by BigThink]”
― Richard Reeves

“If they divorce, there is a legal apparatus in place to determine custody arrangements, visitation rights, and financial obligations. of course there is often conflict between divorcing couples, but at least they each have legal standing with regard to their children. And in recent decades, family laws have shifted in a more egalitarian direction toward divorce. Courts are now obliged to treat mothers and fathers fairly in determining custody, and the usual legal standard is now the best interests of the child or children. As a result, there has been a dramatic shift toward joint custody arrangements.”
― Richard Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

“Ron Dellums, the Oakland boy who tried to stop”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“battle. The”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

“R. C. Hoiles,”
― Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II