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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.


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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.



The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?



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.



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

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



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



Society becomes how you behave.

Society becomes how you behave.





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