I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it would be open to all, and He would be the last to refuse service to anyone. It is, simply put, the most un-Christian of notions.
GEORGE TAKEII’ve run the marathon several times, so I definitely don’t look like the Great Ancestor!
More George Takei Quotes
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We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.
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I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater.
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Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
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I am emboldened, not cowed, by the words and actions of Trump and his circle. I believe many others are as well. Together we will stand in opposition. I’m not going anywhere, and I won’t be silenced.
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But when we came out of camp, that’s when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.
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Unfriending me when I didn’t even know we were friends? It’s like breaking wind when you’re home alone. If I can’t smell you, knock yourself out.
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This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we’re not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.
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It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.
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If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.
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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.
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What’s needed today, now, more than ever, is ‘Star Peace’ for there is an ominous, mutual threat to all science fiction. It’s called ‘Twilight’. And it is really, really bad.
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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.
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The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
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We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.
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If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.
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As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.
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You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.
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Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.
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You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
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My memories of camp – I was four years old to eight years old – they’re fond memories.
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Should any terrorist strike or act of war occur in which American lives are lost, we must be on guard for any attempt by the government to turn that tragedy into justification for sweeping action.
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Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
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I’m a civic busybody and I’ve been blessed with an active career.
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There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise.
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Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
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