Eric Liu Quotes

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• Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world…
• The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask…
• What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together?…
• When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball…
• America is exceptional: but because it yields the likes of Obama, not the likes of Bush.
• As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked…
• Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.
• I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of the people I…
• Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.
• Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's…
• Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a…
• The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.
• The nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious.
• 'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.
• Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.
• To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.
• Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.
• Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.
• After watching my first World Series in 1977, I wanted to be Reggie Jackson. I bought a big Reggie poster. I ate Reggie candy bars.…
• From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the…

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