Today we have the economic collapse that the whole planet is suffering, but there is hope, and that’s what’s going to keep us moving ahead.
GEORGE TAKEIThis 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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Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
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We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.
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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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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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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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The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.
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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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You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
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And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.
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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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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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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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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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Cat’s are unpredictable. It is a fine line between the cure, inquisitive and innocent creature resting on our lap and the hissing, spitting and deranged banshee it might become at any moment. This is why we’re trying always to win their love.
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Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.
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You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.
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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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Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
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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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My memories of camp – I was four years old to eight years old – they’re fond memories.
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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.
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As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.
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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’m a civic busybody and I’ve been blessed with an active career.
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Our differences in beliefs do not truly separate us, or elevate us over others. Rather, they highlight the rich tapestry that is humanity.
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