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We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.

George Takei

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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Aware Citizenship Life Passion Theatre
STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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Belief Future Positive Vision
We need to take our passion and effect real change at the local, state, and federal levels, to help elect progressive leaders, and to stem the tide of division, fear and scapegoating.
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Change Division Fear Leadership Need Passion Progression Reality
I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.
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Chapter Democracy Glory History Learning Thinking Time
Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.
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Hero Surface
I’m a civic busybody and I’ve been blessed with an active career.
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Active Blessing Body Busy Career Myself
Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
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Demand History Marketing
You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
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Age Camp Growth Myself Time Young
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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Action Myself Politics President Silence Word
It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.
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Busy Different Hard Hate Laughter Togetherness Yourself
We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.
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Administration Division Each Other Try
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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Camp Machine Myself Normal Remember Time
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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Democracy Manipulation Participation People System
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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Bad Day Fantasy Need Peace Science Stardom
Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
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Capacity Confidence Innovation Invention Problem
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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Act Action Strike Terrorism Tragedy War

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