George Takei

To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time. ↗

— George Takei

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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. ↗

— George Takei

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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. ↗

— George Takei

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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. ↗

— George Takei

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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. ↗

— George Takei

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Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here. ↗

— George Takei

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

— George Takei

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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. ↗

— George Takei

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

— George Takei

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I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career. ↗

— George Takei

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