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Eric Liu Quotes

American - Writer | 1968 -

If the undocumented have to work hard to attain citizenship, those of us who already are citizens should have to work hard to sustain it. We should all have to serve more, vote more, build more, and do more for our country.

Work Work Hard Citizenship Country

After watching my first World Series in 1977, I wanted to be Reggie Jackson. I bought a big Reggie poster. I ate Reggie candy bars. I entered a phase during which I insisted on having the same style of glasses Reggie had: gold wire frames with the double bar across.

Style Glasses Gold World Candy Bar

What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again.

Together Diversity Celebrate Create

Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.

Family Great Poverty Tiger Living

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.

Color Learn America You Skin Young

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

Today Past Government Understanding

Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve it and some do not - that the status shouldn't be handed out automatically. Frankly, that's a premise worth considering.

People End Citizenship Worth Want

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

Ugly Push Obvious Behind Amend

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

America Because Likes Exceptional

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

Today Politics Feel Citizenship Talk

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America.

Power Best Words People Arrogance

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

Live Great Time Religion Country

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