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" 'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms. "

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" Following the Orlando attack, ISIS claimed the attacker as one of its own and called for even more such killings worldwide. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It'd be nice to be what they call a Renaissance man. "

" 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. "

" Our democracy is dependent on people who passionately cherish the ideals of a democracy. Every man is created equal with an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's a wonderful idea, and it takes people who cherish that idea to be actively involved in the process. "

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

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" I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration camps. "

" But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful. "