George Takei Quotes

American - Actor Born: April 20, 1937

I intend to live life, not just exist. - George Takei

I intend to live life, not just exist. George Takei

Life, Live Life, Live, Exist, Just

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. George Takei

Government, American, Internment, Here

When Pearl Harbor was bombed, young Japanese-Americans, like all young Americans, rushed to their draft board to volunteer to fight for our country. That act of patriotism was answered with a slap in the face. We were denied service and categorized as enemy non-alien. George Takei

Service, Patriotism, Fight, Face, Young

On a bus, your eyes, ears, and pores are open absorbing in the variety, the wonder, and the magic of the city. It's a wonderful way to get to know the city. George Takei

Eyes, City, Magic, Wonder, Know, Way

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

Life, People, My Life, American, Behind

I was four years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941 by Japan, and overnight, the world was plunged into a world war. America suddenly was swept up by hysteria. George Takei

War, December, World, America, Old, Up

I remembered some people who lived across the street from our home as we were being taken away. When I was a teenager, I had many after-dinner conversations with my father about our internment. He told me that after we were taken away, they came to our house and took everything. We were literally stripped clean. George Takei

Father, Home, People, Me, Street, House

It was an egregious violation of the American Constitution. We were innocent American citizens, and we were imprisoned simply because we happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. It shows us just how fragile our Constitution is. George Takei

People, Constitution, American, Look, Us

One of the gifts of 'Star Trek' is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong friends. George Takei

Work, Colleagues, Friends, Professional

My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift. Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays. George Takei

Success, Morning, Gift, Day, New Day

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I discovered that funny animal pictures - memes - would get a lot of likes and shares. George Takei

Funny, Animal, Pictures, Likes, Get, Lot

I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist. George Takei

Love, Society, People, Better, You, Make

The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people. George Takei

History, People, Equality, More, Being

It has long been a dream of mine that this important story one day would be told on the great American stage of Broadway. In fact, I've dedicated much of the latter half of my life to ensuring the story of the internment is known. George Takei

Life, Great, Day, My Life, Long, Story

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. George Takei

Love, Marriage, People, Believe, Care

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. George Takei

Life, Happiness, Man, People, Democracy

My father told me about American democracy. And he said you have to be actively engaged in the political process to make our democracy work. So I've been doing that my entire life. Civil rights movement. The peace movement during the Vietnam conflict. The movement to get an apology and redress for Japanese-Americans. George Takei

Life, Work, Father, Peace, Democracy, Me

You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young. George Takei

Time, American, Young, You, Know, Two

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. George Takei

Positive, Future, Vision, Society, View

You know what the lowest rated episode we ever had was? Where Captain Kirk kissed Uhuru - a white man kissing an African-American woman. All the stations in the American South - in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana - refused to air it. And so our ratings plummeted. George Takei

Man, Woman, American, You, Know, Captain

The central pillar of our justice system is due process. You have got to be charged with a crime. Then you can challenge those charges in a court of law with a trial. George Takei

Justice, Challenge, Law, Process, You

The best way to get people to connect with an issue is to humanize it. You can do so much more powerfully with music and touch the heart. George Takei

Music, Best, Heart, People, You, Way

We have to remember that Putin was a member of the KGB. He has already demonstrated that kind of macho, dictatorial attitude. Russia has breached their pledge to uphold the Olympic charter. This is a great opportunity for the IOC to say we cannot, given the situation that exists currently, allow the Olympics to take place in Russia. George Takei

Attitude, Opportunity, Great, Remember

As my audience grew more diverse, I started interjecting social justice advocacy and commentaries about LGBT equality, and it just kept growing more. George Takei

Justice, Equality, Growing, Audience

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

Strength, Diversity, Acceptance, Star

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

Remember, Landscape, Guns, Yes, Normal

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