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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
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
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
It is an ancient story
Yet is it ever new. — Heinrich Heine
Yet is it ever new. — Heinrich Heine
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
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
I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.
— Anthony Kiedis