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 刘耀威

保守派忘记了公民身份不仅仅是对移民的一种保留。进步人士忘记了这不仅仅是一套权利。

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Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidentially expect utopia. Both are wrong.

考虑到深刻的社会变革,保守主义者总是期待灾难,而革命者则暗地里期待乌托邦。两者都是错误的。

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

通过“激进”,我理解一个人走得太远;“保守主义者”指的是走得不够远的人;被一个“反动分子”,一个根本不愿去的人。

People want a result. Immigrant voters aren't stupid, and they're going to know who's on their side.

人们想要一个结果。移民选民并不愚蠢,他们会知道谁站在他们这一边。

Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.

因此,一个人应该同时谈论国籍和更广泛的欧洲国籍。

First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

首先,我们并不总是欢迎移民。