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We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories.Steven C. Rockefeller
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We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others–our parents, for instance–and they disappear from our lives, the conversation with them continues within us as long as we live.Charles Taylor
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[M]y discovering my own identity doesn't mean that I work it out in isolation, but that I negotiate it through dialogue, partly overt, partly internal, with others.Charles Taylor
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We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.Charles Taylor