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.
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.
They didn't want 'those people' coming into Hancock Park, low-income people. The Hancock Park people clearly were making their opposition known to Henry Waxman.
People forget that stereotypes aren’t bad because they are always untrue. Stereotypes are bad because they are not always true. If we allow ourselves to judge another based on a stereotype, we have allowed a gross generalization to replace our own thinking.
Our democracy is a people's democracy, and it can be as great as people can be, but it is also as fallible as people are.
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.