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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.

George Takei

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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You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
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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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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
There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise.
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Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.
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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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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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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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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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It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.
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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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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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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’m a civic busybody and I’ve been blessed with an active career.
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The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
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