It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.
Interpretation
Laughter shared between people can bridge differences and promote acceptance.
This quote by George Takei highlights the power of laughter as a unifying force in relationships. When individuals engage in joyful experiences together, such as laughter, it becomes difficult to harbor negative feelings like hate, even towards those who may be different from us. It suggests that shared happiness can dissolve prejudices and foster understanding among diverse individuals.
In practice
This quote is perfect for discussions about diversity in a team-building workshop.
I remembered some people who lived across the street from our home as we were being taken away. When I was a teenager, I had many after-dinner conversations with my father about our internment. He told me that after we were taken away, they came to our house and took everything. We were literally stripped clean.
I'd like to think that, when I explain it, that Mr. Trump will understand marriage is defined by two people who love each other, commit to each other, and will care for each other through thick and thin.
Back in the day, coming out was something very personal. You began by acknowledging the truth, first to yourself, then to close family and friends. Those of us more in the public spotlight, though, also had to 'come out' to the press.
My father told me about American democracy. And he said you have to be actively engaged in the political process to make our democracy work. So I've been doing that my entire life. Civil rights movement. The peace movement during the Vietnam conflict. The movement to get an apology and redress for Japanese-Americans.
I'm especially concerned about the future of this country, because I'm concerned about the gay people of the future. We need to ensure their good life by registering to vote.
In many ways, my decision to come out changed the course not only of my personal life but of my professional one as well.
It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.
We know that all interracial groups in South Africa are relationships in which whites are superior, blacks inferior. So as a prelude, whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior. Same with blacks. They must be made to realize that they are also human, not inferior.
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