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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

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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Camp Life Myself People
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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Belief Difference Humanity Rich Separate True
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
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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Adversity Character Equality Faith Mindset People
Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy… Vote!
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Citizenship Duty Galaxy Vote
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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Advance Believe Enjoyment History Myself Preserve Technology
The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
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Human Ignorance Philosophy Pride Worst
I’ve run the marathon several times, so I definitely don’t look like the Great Ancestor!
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Appearance Greatness Marathon Myself Run Time
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
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’m a civic busybody and I’ve been blessed with an active career.
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Active Blessing Body Busy Career Myself
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 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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Chapter Democracy Glory History Learning Thinking Time
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.
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Alone Break Friendship Home Myself
You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.
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Clothes Man Rape Yourself
It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.
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Busy Different Hard Hate Laughter Togetherness Yourself

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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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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