Skip to content

Agreement Quote by Eric Liu

“Race in America has always centered on our mutual agreement not to see each other. White or non-white. Black or non-black. Mongoloid, Hindoo. We've always bought into to the crudest, humanity-denying forms of sorting.” quote by Eric Liu — Download Open image

“Race in America has always centered on our mutual agreement not to see each other. White or non-white. Black or non-black. Mongoloid, Hindoo. We've always bought into to the crudest, humanity-denying forms of sorting.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings)

Agreement Always America Black Bought Centered Each Forms Mutual Other Our Race Racism See White

More by Eric Liu

“There was an omnivorous intellect that won him the family sobriquet of Walking Encyclopedia.”

Image

Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath…

Image

It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are…

Image

What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something…

Image

“Far too many Americans are illiterate in power — what it is, how it operates and why some people have it. As a result,…

Image

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 greater citizen than she who sacrifices; and that there is no greater measure of worth than contribution. These are values we can be proud of. After all, there is no moral system or religion on…

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. That assumption is wrong. Even if you aren’t a member, your pay is influenced by the strength or weakness of organized labor. The presence of unions sets off a wage race to the top. Their…

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…

Image

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…

Image

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…

Image

We're all better off...when we're all better off.

Image

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

Image

Explore all 72 Eric Liu quotes

More Agreement quotes

Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as…

Image

There's no way to have a peace agreement unless the mediator or negotiator looks at both sides from an equal basis.

Image

Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient their research in a given direction, whether it be in the field of ecology, ethology, sociology, demography (dynamics of populations), genetics (so-called evolutionary genetics), or paleontology. This intrusion of theories has unfortunate results: it deprives observations…

Pierre-Paul Grasse

In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of…

Image

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

M. John Harrison

Image

I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have…

Image

Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.

Image

As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close…

Image

Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual understanding and mutual agreement in the noosphere about how to proceed with those problems. We cannot rein in industry if we cannot reach mutual understanding and mutual agreement based on a worldcentric moral perspective concerning the global commons. And we…

We recognize that NAFTA is a three-country agreement, and we need a three-country negotiation.

Chrystia Freeland

Image

At Ohio State University, to avoid being guilty of 'sexual assault' or 'sexual violence,' you and your partner now apparently have to agree on the reason WHY you are making out or having sex. It's not enough to agree to DO it, you have to agree on WHY: there has to be agreement 'regarding the who, what, where, when, why,…

Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The…

Miguel Angel Ruiz

Image

Browse all 1,108 Agreement quotes