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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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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Well, you know, I do think in the larger span of things, I owe it all to Star Trek, because Star Trek has given me this pop icon status if you will, and one of the gifts have been this megaphone I have which amplifies my voice and I can reach people. And I do think the movement for equality for LGBT Americans is in the same context of all of the great American movements, you know, the basic fundamental ideals of this country of justice and equality.
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We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the struggle for equality for the gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. And I think it's important for Americans to know about the times that we failed.
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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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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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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.
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We are part of the fabric of America, from U.S. senators to your schoolteacher to your local banker.