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- 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…
- Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.
- 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…
- Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
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- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle