All Eric Liu Quotes
- Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen… Abroad
- Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment.… Accordingly
- We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT… All
- Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The… Agony
- I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and… America
- If the undocumented have to work hard to attain citizenship, those of us who already are citizens should have to work hard to sustain it.… All
- Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and… American
- In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the… Action
- Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely… American
- It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans. Cameras
- Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for them to do… Act
- The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by… Accept
- My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing… Air
- The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something… Around D