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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.

George Takei

STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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Belief Future Positive Vision
Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy… Vote!
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Citizenship Duty Galaxy Vote
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
Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
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Leadership Popular Validation
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
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
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.
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Establishment Help Notion Public Religion Service Simplicity Thinking
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
I’m a civic busybody and I’ve been blessed with an active career.
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Active Blessing Body Busy Career Myself
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
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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Difference Diversity Face Humanity Ourselves Wonder
Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
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Food Life Order Short Sweet
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
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
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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Camp Machine Myself Normal Remember Time
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

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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