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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.

George Takei

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
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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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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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
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
Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.
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Hero Surface
You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.
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Clothes Man Rape Yourself
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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Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
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Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
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Demand History Marketing
It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.
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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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Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy… Vote!
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I’m a civic busybody and I’ve been blessed with an active career.
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I’ve run the marathon several times, so I definitely don’t look like the Great Ancestor!
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The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
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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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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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Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.
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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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I’m a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.
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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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Administration Division Each Other Try
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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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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My memories of camp – I was four years old to eight years old – they’re fond memories.
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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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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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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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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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