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George Takei

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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Ethics Faith Hurt Law Moral People Religion True Yourself
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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Achievement Country Failure Glory Ideal Important Nation
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
My memories of camp – I was four years old to eight years old – they’re fond memories.
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Camp Childhood Memories Myself
The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
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Human Ignorance Philosophy Pride Worst
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
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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Camp Identity Myself Realization Shame
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 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
Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.
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Ancient Animal Cat Funny Social Media Wall Worship Writing
The large majority of faith-based people are decent, fair-minded people. We should not characterize people of faith as the adversaries of GLBT equality.
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Adversity Character Equality Faith Mindset People
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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Connection Imagination Leadership Purpose Society
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.
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Economics Head Hope Move Planet Suffering
Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.
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Content Greatness Interest Social Media User
Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
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Cancel Play Season Series
Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
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Capacity Confidence Innovation Invention Problem

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