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Eric Liu quotes: Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.

Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.

Eric Liu quotes: Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.

Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.

Eric Liu quotes: To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

Eric Liu quotes: True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.

True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.

Eric Liu quotes: 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's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

Eric Liu quotes: Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.

Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.

Eric Liu quotes: We're all better off ... when we're all better off.

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

Eric Liu quotes: Society becomes how you behave.

Society becomes how you behave.

Eric Liu quotes: 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 word game.

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 word game.

Eric Liu quotes: With food still scarce,there was no longer a right to exist. You needed to earn your spot.

With food still scarce,there was no longer a right to exist. You needed to earn your spot.

Eric Liu quotes: 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 gain.

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 gain.

Eric Liu quotes: The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

Eric Liu quotes: Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.

Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.

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

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

Eric Liu quotes: 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 know.

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 know.

Eric Liu quotes: To love country means to rise above I am because I am. It is to recognize that I am because we are.

To love country means to rise above I am because I am. It is to recognize that I am because we are.

Eric Liu quotes: There was an omnivorous intellect that won him the family sobriquet of Walking Encyclopedia.

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

Eric Liu quotes: '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.

'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.

Eric Liu quotes: You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American.

You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American.

Eric Liu quotes: We live in a great country. It's time again to get religion about it.

We live in a great country. It's time again to get religion about it.

Eric Liu quotes: America is exceptional: but because it yields the likes of Obama, not the likes of Bush.

America is exceptional: but because it yields the likes of Obama, not the likes of Bush.

Eric Liu quotes: The nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious.

The nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious.

Eric Liu quotes: 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 of us.

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 of us.