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.

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.

Failure is a steppingstone to poverty, Cosmic Ordering is an elevator to success.

Hey, princess of Popsicles! Queen of curlicue cones.

Why should I take my clothes off (...) when there are, already, so many other woman doing it for me?

Even if it's not appreciated, do your best. Integrity will take you further than acknowledgement.

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

Some women have a pulsing energy almost too sharp and salty to endure and when they are in pain their pain is ferocious and shatters all over the place.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.

I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.