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Hissyspit

(45,788 posts) Fri Feb 27, 2015, 02:01 PM Feb 2015

Leonard Nimoy, Liberal: "Get Involved"

“My folks came to the United States as immigrants, aliens, and they became citizens. I was born in Boston a citizen; I went to Hollywood, and I became an alien. Spock called for exactly the kind of work I was prepared to do. He was a character with a rich and dynamic inner life – half human, half Vulcan. He was the embodiment of the outsider, like the immigrants who surrounded me in my early years. How do you find your way as the alien in a foreign culture? Where does your identity and dignity come from? And how do you make a contribution?”

1968:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/leonoraepstein/spocks-advice-to-a-teenage-girl-will-make-you-cry#.kf1120dlz

"Spock learned he could save himself from letting prejudice get him down. he could do this by really understanding himself and knowing his own value as a person."

1970:

http://www.leonardnimoy.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1394:leonard-nimoy-says-get-involved&catid=23:articles-and-quotes&Itemid=11

"I supported McCarthy for President and have worked with Operation Head Start and Vista. I do what I can for Bootstrap, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Job Corps, the Peace Corps and so forth. I do as much as I can handIe."

I was really moved by the man’s concern and more so by the fact that he was doing something about it.
So, l just grinned and gave him the peace sign.

In 2007, Nimoy donated to Barack Obama’s campaign, and to Al Franken’s campaign for Senate. He donated to Barbara Boxer in 2004. He gave $2,000 each to Howard Dean and John Kerry in 2004.