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My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform. – Eric Liu

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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, its usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar. – Eric Liu

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Politics
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Eric Liu
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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

Category:
Experience
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Eric Liu
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Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the 04 elections is that politics is a word game. – Eric Liu

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Politics
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Eric Liu
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War
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We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped. – Harriet Tubman

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War

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. – Albert Einstein, “Atomic War or Peace,” Atlantic Monthly, November 1945

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War

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got. – George W. Bush

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War

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it. – Dan Savage

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War

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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Our Girls”

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When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit ones imagination. – Ellen Key

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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you cant deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. – Denis Diderot

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Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old; it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother. – G. Norman Collie

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