#to

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

#barbed #barbed wire #became #camp #guard

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. ↗

— George Takei

#exploit #manipulate #participating #participatory #people

Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand. ↗

— George Takei

#history #market #star #star trek #trek

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#individual #justice #major #perpetrators #rights

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#democracies #dictatorships #fight #forgiving #generous

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#denied #difference #diversity #i #in the past

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#always #democracy #door #genuinely #into

Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#confederacy #could #federal #independence #mean

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

#balanced #believe #cause #east #government

I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

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