George Takei

(3 votes)   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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(3 votes)   My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.

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(3 votes)   Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us.

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

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

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(4 votes)   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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(4 votes)   Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.

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(4 votes)   You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

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

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(3 votes)   I love the show, and I'm proud of my association with the show, and certainly the character is one that is very much a part of me.

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(3 votes)   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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(3 votes)   Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

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(3 votes)   Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.

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(3 votes)   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.

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(4 votes)   So the history of Star Trek is one directed, guided and determined by the Star Trek fans, and here they are again, asserting themselves.

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