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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.

George Takei

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.
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Bad Day Fantasy Need Peace Science Stardom
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 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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Aware Citizenship Life Passion Theatre
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
We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.
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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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Age Camp Growth Myself Time Young
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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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
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
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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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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Act Action Strike Terrorism Tragedy War
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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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
I’ve run the marathon several times, so I definitely don’t look like the Great Ancestor!
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I’m a civic busybody and I’ve been blessed with an active career.
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Active Blessing Body Busy Career Myself
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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