'the Purpose-driven Life' Is Not Just A

Love Of Country Cannot Be A Supersized Version Of Individual Narcissism. True Love Of Country-of This Country-is Love Of Our Children, Of A Creed That Promises Them A Better Life Before It Promises Us Anything, And Embraces The Sacrifices Needed To Make That Better Life. True Love Of Country Is Giving Ourselves To A Cause And A Purpose Larger Than Ourselves. And That Cause Is To Make Liberty Worth Having, To Make The Pursuit Of Happiness Deeper Than The Quest For Personal Pleasure, And To Leave A Legacy Of Progress And Possibility.

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.

Today's Multiracial Americans Are At Greater Liberty To Choose How They'd Like To Be Seen, And Under Less Pressure To Pass For White.

Identity In America Is Complicated But It's Also Simple: It's About Whom You Identify With And Who Identifies With You.

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