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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."
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"Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless."

"Always contend for the good!"

"During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."

"16 days of activism? I don't know about you folks, but I'm an activist every single day."

"It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out (she glanced at the window with its ripple of reflected lights) in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby; so that again tonight she had the feeling she had had once today, already, of peace, of rest. Of such moments, she thought, the thing is made that endures."

"You know there's always prejudice in a revolutionary movement."
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"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season."
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