The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
GEORGE TAKEI
STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
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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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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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You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
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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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Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.
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