I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater.

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.

Our differences in beliefs do not truly separate us, or elevate us over others. Rather, they highlight the rich tapestry that is humanity.

If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.

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

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.

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

The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.

The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.

You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

The quality of the relationships that students have in class with their peers and teachers is important to their success in school.

To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.

I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an end in itself. Yet death is unpredictable-you do not know when and howT it will take place.

What kind of city we wish to build should reflect our personal wishes and needs.

I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.

You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent and industrious neighbors.

What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

Nuclear arms kill many people all at once, but other weapons kill many people, little by little, every day, everywhere in the world.