When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys.
BENJAMIN CARSONThere is so much potential out there in young people and they aren’t getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.
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I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
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Education does not necessarily make one wise?
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If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.
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Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.
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I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.
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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems.
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Do we have a brain? Than use it. It’s all you need to overcome a problem. That’s the secret. That’s my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.
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White liberals are the most racist people there are, because they put blacks in a box and insist that they think one way – and if they don’t, they attack them as illegitimate, all the while denying that their policies destroy blacks.
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If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.
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When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
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I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.
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No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don’t fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.
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The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
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The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.
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If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
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