Eric Liu Quotes

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• The boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay young forever or to stop aging. But it is possible by…
• True patriots believe that freedom from responsibility is selfishness, freedom from sacrifice is cowardice, freedom from tolerance is prejudice, freedom from stewardship is exploitation, and…
• A basic assumption shapes most Americans’ mindset about labor: the belief that the death of unions isn’t my problem because I’m not in a union.…
• Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.
• Society becomes how you behave.
• Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise isn't leadership, it…
• Our commitment should be to leave our environment in better shape than when we found it, our nation's fiscal house in better order, our public…
• True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.
• To love country means to rise above I am because I am. It is to recognize that I am because we are.
• Love of country cannot be a supersized version of individual narcissism. True love of country-of this country-is love of our children, of a creed that…
• At the heart of our public morality is the idea that he who gives generously is most virtuous and morally praiseworthy; that there is no…
• True patriots believe that we should measure a citizen's worth by contribution to country and community, not by wealth or power-that those whom America has…
• We're all better off...when we're all better off.
• If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness…
• Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems…
• You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American.
• In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has…
• In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.
• We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning…
• If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would…

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