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" 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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George Takei

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" I'm a chairman on the Board of Governors for the East-West Players, the longest-running Asian-American theater company in America. "

" 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. And I've been able to wed the two passions. "

" I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year. "

" I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King. "

" I was blessed with my career. I passionately love acting. And it's given me a good livelihood. "

" Back in the day, coming out was something very personal. You began by acknowledging the truth, first to yourself, then to close family and friends. Those of us more in the public spotlight, though, also had to 'come out' to the press. "

" 'Star Trek' is science fiction. 'Star Wars' is science fantasy. Based on the episodes I worked on, I think with 'Star Wars: Clone Wars,' we're starting to see a merging, though. It does deal, philosophically, with some of the issues of the time, which is always something 'Star Trek' was known for. "

" The central pillar of our justice system is due process. You have got to be charged with a crime. Then you can challenge those charges in a court of law with a trial. "

" We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment camps here in the United States. The term 'Japanese internment camp' is both grammatically and factually incorrect. "

" ISIS itself regularly fuels hatred of gay people and violence towards them. It broadcasts gruesome executions of homosexuals thrown blindfolded from rooftops. "

" The Russians are taunting the IOC with the homophobic laws that they pass. "

" At the core of 'Star Trek' is Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future. So much of science-fiction is about a dystopian society with human civilization having crumbled. He had an affirmative, shining, positive view of the future. "

" This political climate today reminds me of what my father must have gone through in 1942, when the winds of war and fires of hate were surrounding him. We have a candidate for the presidency of the United States, Donald Trump, using the same rhetoric that my father must have heard from elected officials. "

George Takei

War

Father

" I think Donald Trump's interpretation of marriage is something that he himself doesn't really believe in. 'Traditional marriage' is where two people love each other, commit to each other, care for each other over the years. It is a meaningful ceremony, and his interpretation of that is not recognizing what real marriage is. "

" I'm proud of my relationship with 'Star Trek'! 'Star Trek' is a show that I am philosophically compatible with. "

" When I heard Donald Trump make that sweeping hysterical statement that all Muslims have to be banned because they are terrorists, I was chilled by that. "

" Arguments that we will never stop all shootings by restricting access to such weapons fails to account for our strong and common desire at least to stop many of them - or any of them. "

" It's important for all Americans to know how vulnerable our Constitution is. "

" As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season. "

" I discovered that funny animal pictures - memes - would get a lot of likes and shares. "

" 'Star Trek' fans totally accepted my sexual orientation. There are a great number of LGBT people across 'Star Trek' fandom. The show always appealed to people that were different - the geeks and the nerds, and the people who felt they were not quite a part of society, sometimes because they may have been gay or lesbian. "

" The wonderful thing about acting is they're always going to need old codgers! "

" I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it. "

" You know what the lowest rated episode we ever had was? Where Captain Kirk kissed Uhuru - a white man kissing an African-American woman. All the stations in the American South - in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana - refused to air it. And so our ratings plummeted. "

" People are interested not just in Sulu, but George Takei - and he's gay. Life is full of twist and turns. "

George Takei

Life

Gay

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

" Children are amazingly adaptable. What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the prisoner of war camps. It became routine for me to line up three times a day to eat lousy food in a noisy mess hall. It became normal for me to go with my father to bathe in a mass shower. "

" When billionaires can give $50 million, $500 million to a campaign, and there's no limit, then it makes a mockery of 'one man, one vote.' "

" I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy. "