Eric Liu Quotes

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

  Eric Liu

  Topics in Country, History

• 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 in Life

  Tags in Myself, Fastball, Pitcher

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

  Eric Liu

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Religions

• 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.

  Eric Liu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Celebrate, Diversity, True, Potential

• 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 in America

  Tags in People, Privilege

• 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.

  Eric Liu

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Citizenship, National

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

  Eric Liu

  Topics in America

  Tags in Exceptional, President

• If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white – which his genes certainly entitled him to do – his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis.

  Eric Liu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Obama, True, Crisis

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Negative, Generation

• 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.

  Eric Liu

  Topics in America

  Tags in Advantage, Young

Eric Liu (50)

Birth:	1968
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Educator, Journalist, Strategist, Writer

About

Eric Liu was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. He is an American writer, journalist, strategist, and founder of Citizen University. He served as Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Domestic Policy at the White House between 1999 and 2000. He served as Speechwriter and Director of Legislative Affairs for the National Security Council at the White House from 1993 to 1994. He is currently a Senior Law Lecturer at the University of Washington School of Law. He is a regular columnist for CNN.com and a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com. He wrote the 'Teachings' column for Slate magazine from 2002 to 2005. He studied history at Yale University and graduate of Harvard Law School. He has written several books include: The Accidental Asian, Guiding Lights, and A Chinaman's Chance.

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