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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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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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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. ↗

— George Takei

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

— George Takei

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Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

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I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

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Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

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This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

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I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

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I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

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