Eric Liu: Power without character makes you a skilled sociopath
Channel: Baratunde Thurston
Date: 2020-09-03

Eric Liu of @CitizenUniversity joined for Episode 1 of #HowToCitizen to help us understand power and its role in active citizenship. Listen to the full episode at http://howtocitizen.com 

One of Eric's most potent lessons was that power alone is not enough. It must be coupled with "civic character." As he puts it, power plus character equals citizenship. At this moment in U.S. history, with a pandemic and racial revelation/uprising, we have an opportunity to use our power in ways that benefit the whole of society. We have an opportunity to build power together. Let's take it.