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You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

George Takei

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
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.
GEORGE TAKEI

Blood Certain Father Goodness Ideal People Suffering Understand
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
Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
GEORGE TAKEI

Leadership Popular Validation
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.
GEORGE TAKEI

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.
GEORGE TAKEI

Action Myself Politics President Silence Word
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.
GEORGE TAKEI

Difference Diversity Face Humanity Ourselves Wonder
As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.
GEORGE TAKEI

Fans Love Old Place Simplicity
Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
GEORGE TAKEI

Capacity Confidence Innovation Invention Problem
I’m a civic busybody and I’ve been blessed with an active career.
GEORGE TAKEI

Active Blessing Body Busy Career Myself
Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
GEORGE TAKEI

Demand History Marketing
I’m a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.
GEORGE TAKEI

Advance Believe Enjoyment History Myself Preserve Technology
Unfriending me when I didn’t even know we were friends? It’s like breaking wind when you’re home alone. If I can’t smell you, knock yourself out.
GEORGE TAKEI

Alone Break Friendship Home Myself
We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.
GEORGE TAKEI

Assault Freedom Liberty Ourselves Reminder
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
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

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