George Takei
George Takei
George Hosato Takeiis an American actor, director, author, and activist. Takei is best known for his role as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS Enterprise in the television series Star Trek. He also portrayed the character in six Star Trek feature films and in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth20 April 1937
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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They didn't want 'those people' coming into Hancock Park, low-income people. The Hancock Park people clearly were making their opposition known to Henry Waxman.
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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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People forget that stereotypes aren’t bad because they are always untrue. Stereotypes are bad because they are not always true. If we allow ourselves to judge another based on a stereotype, we have allowed a gross generalization to replace our own thinking.
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This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.
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Our democracy is a people's democracy, and it can be as great as people can be, but it is also as fallible as people are.
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If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.
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You know, it's not really coming out, ... It's more like a long, long walk through what began as a narrow corridor that starts to widen.
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I didn't want to talk about being in an internment camp, ... They would ask me, where was I? I would say I was far away...But I never went into details.
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So I've been a political activist all my life and I think in a large measure it's because of the internment that we experienced 50 years ago.
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I'm also serving as a commissioner on the Japan-U.S. Commission, appointed by President Clinton, which will be taking me to Tokyo in June.
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We were taken to Arkansas in trains like this.
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That's right. These are the suitcases that immigrants brought with them, ... Star Trek.
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They are the real ones. We were the future fiction version and they're the ones that are making whatever we did credible. It's their heroism, their commitment, their discipline and their victory that's going to make the Starship Enterprise that much more credible.
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We are going to make a stronger, better, truer democracy....We will boldly go where America has never gone before.