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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.

George Takei

Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
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Food Life Order Short Sweet
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.
GEORGE TAKEI

Ethics Faith Hurt Law Moral People Religion True Yourself
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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Diversity Earth Enterprise Stardom Strength Vision
As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.
GEORGE TAKEI

Fans Love Old Place Simplicity
Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
GEORGE TAKEI

Demand History Marketing
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.
GEORGE TAKEI

Change Division Fear Leadership Need Passion Progression Reality
You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.
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Clothes Man Rape Yourself
If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.
GEORGE TAKEI

Connection Imagination Leadership Purpose Society
We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.
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Assault Freedom Liberty Ourselves Reminder
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 TAKEI

Establishment Help Notion Public Religion Service Simplicity Thinking
It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.
GEORGE TAKEI

Busy Different Hard Hate Laughter Togetherness Yourself
STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
GEORGE TAKEI

Belief Future Positive Vision
We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.
GEORGE TAKEI

Administration Division Each Other Try
But when we came out of camp, that’s when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.
GEORGE TAKEI

Camp Identity Myself Realization Shame
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.
GEORGE TAKEI

Bad Day Fantasy Need Peace Science Stardom
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.
GEORGE TAKEI

Aware Citizenship Life Passion Theatre

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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