List of Eric Liu Quotes

The Boomers Will Eventually Have To Accept That It Is Not Possible To Stay Young Forever Or To Stop Aging. But It Is Possible By Committing To Show Up For Each Others In Community After Community, To Earn A Measure Of Immortality.

To Love Country Means To Rise Above I Am Because I Am. It Is To Recognize That I Am Because We Are.

There Have Been, In Recent Years, Many Asian American Pioneers In The Public Eye Who've Defied The Condescendingly Complimentary 'model Minority' Stereotype: Actors Like Lucy Liu, Artists Like Maya Lin, Moguls Like Zappos Ceo Tony Hsieh. They Are Known, Often Admired.

In The End No Segregationist Scheme Has Withstood The Force Of A Simple Idea: Equality Under Law.

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.

Why Does An Iphone Cost Only A Couple Hundred Dollars? Because, As The Stage Performer Mike Daisey Depicted In An Arresting One-man Show Called 'the Agony And Ecstasy Of Steve Jobs,' Apple's Shiniest Products Are Made By A Shadowy Company In China Called Foxconn.

We All Want Merit To Mean Something, And We All May Be Tempted To Reduce That Meaning To Something Measurable And Concrete Like An Sat Score. The Reality, Though, Is That Who Deserves Entry Into An Institution Depends On What The Institution Exists To Do.

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.

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.

'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.

The Nativism Behind The Push To Repeal Or Amend The Fourteenth Is Ugly And Obvious.

The Boomers Have Modeled A Set Of Bad Habits, And One Grand Gesture Is Not Going To Unwind All Those Bad Habits.