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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.

~Eric Liu

Topics: America Arrogance Best Cover Fixed Know Left Like Many Our People Power Privilege Sound Suspicious Them White Words

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

~Eric Liu

Topics: About Again Country Get Great Great Country Live Religion Time

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When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me.

~Eric Liu

Topics: All My Life Around Been Blazing Brute Brute Force Bryan Equivalent Fastball Force He How Life Made Me My Life Myself People Pitcher Price See Speed Taught Throw Trying Use Wow

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

~Eric Liu

Topics: Been Country Course Create Efforts History Official Systematic Throughout

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

~Eric Liu

Topics: End Equality Force Idea In The End Law Scheme Simple

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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.

~Eric Liu

Topics: Attain Build Citizens Citizenship Country Hard More Our Serve Should Sustain Those Us Vote Who Work Work Hard

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Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room.

~Eric Liu

Topics: American Became Become Citizens Citizenship Conference Countries Ever Experience Hundreds Hundreds Of People Immigrants Last National Oath Organize People Room Someone States Stirring Swore Thirty United United States Watched Week You

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From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence.

~Eric Liu

Topics: About Advocacy Anchor Babies Civic Get Identity Left Mainly National Oppressed Otherwise Right Shouting Silence You

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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

Topics: Citizenship Conservatives Forget Immigrants More Progressives Rights Set Than Thing Withhold

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In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.

~Eric Liu

Topics: About Also Catalog Convey Duties End Habits In The End Just Just Be Laws Movement New Our Privileges Which

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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