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

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

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

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

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

You only find complete unanimity in a cemetary. — Abel Aganbegyan

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

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

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

He reached up and tugged his ear. And I did the same. — Kiera Cass

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

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

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

Society becomes how you behave. — Eric Liu

We're all better off ... when we're all better off. — Eric Liu

It is an ancient story
Yet is it ever new. — Heinrich Heine

For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief? — Aeschylus

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

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

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

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

'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

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

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

Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not? — Luciano Pavarotti

If that poem idea is in your head NOW, write it down. Right now. Or lose it. For when it's gone, it's gone forever... — Nick Armbrister

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

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

I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world. — Anthony Kiedis

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. — Eric Liu