George Takei

“Oh, myyy.”

“The world has changed from when I was a young man. It is so much more promising for young gay people.”

“Resistance is not futile. We're going to win.”

“Social media is like a river. It's continuous, it's always changing, and it's always moving in a different direction.”

“Pledge allegiance to the ideals of this country, not to a person.”

“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.”

“I have a mission in life. And it's not just to be funny.”

“The truest test of a democracy is in how it treats its minorities.”

“My father said, 'You have to be a part of our democracy. We are the people.' And that's what I am.”

“We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.”

“If you have a barking dog, you can't just be a barking dog back. You have to be the adult in the room.”

“It's really hard to hate someone for being different when you're too busy laughing together.”

“But it is a fact that we did have a secret government that was ruling this country. And the people of this country were not aware of it.”