Quote by Mark Lilla Download Open image ““We're all Americans and we owe that to each other. That's what liberalism means.”” — Mark Lilla ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“if we really care about all Americans, and we must, we have to understand what is happening.” — Historica Press Copy Share Image
“I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human heart… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Being an American is more than a birthright. It is something we must prove worthy everyday, failure to do so insults those who have… — Mark W Boyer Copy Share Image
“Looked at from the point of view of citizens, liberalism is a practice of politics for people who will not be bossed about or… — Edmund Fawcett Copy Share Image
“That's what it means to be an American. To be free to love who and what you want, and to keep a lot in… — Neela Vaswani Copy Share Image
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The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
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“It does strange things to you to realize that the conservative establishment is forcing you to be a progressive liberal fighter for universal rights.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Democratic politics is about persuasion, not self-expression. I’m here, I’m queer will never provoke more than a pat on the head or a roll… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“The other component was to build cadres through political education. Republicans sought out wealthy donors to set up foundations and think tanks as safe… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“The romantic wants to create a world where he or she will possess a fully integrated, unconflicted identity—where the answers to the questions Who… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“How we react to the presidency of Donald Trump will be the first test of our preparedness. His administration in its infancy is already… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“The universities of our time instead cultivate students so obsessed with their personal identities and campus pseudo-politics that they have much less interest in,… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“The Republicans have successfully persuaded much of the public that they are the party of Joe Sixpack and Democrats are the party of Jessica… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“Mary McCarthy, though, had it wrong when she wrote that “Madame Bovary is Don Quixote in skirts.” Emma’s suffering is Platonic: she searches, in… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“You might have thought that, faced with a novel anti-political picture of the nation, liberals would have countered with an imaginative, hopeful vision of… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“The Stillborn God is not a fairy tale. It is a book about the fragility of our world, the world created by the intellectual… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“The forces at work in healthy party politics are centripetal; they encourage factions and interests to come together to work out common goals and… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“Martin Luther King Jr. was the greatest movement leader in American history. But, as Hillary Clinton once correctly pointed out, his efforts would have… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“Like any other political doctrine, liberalism makes assumptions about things human and divine, and these assumptions are, and ought to remain, open to disinterested… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
