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Dr. Ben Carson
Dr. Ben Carson
"We Are One Nation - Dr. Ben Carson" +
3:03 video, May 8, 2014.
[Music] Dr. Ben Carson, M.D.: Hello. What does that
flag behind me mean to you?
It means one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Our strength is our unity. And yet today there are forces that
are attempting to divide us. They don't want us to have that
unity; they don't want us to have that strength. It's the reason
that I dislike political correctness so much, because not only are the
forces trying to divide us, but they don't even want you to talk about
it while they change the fabric of our nation.
This is not what we
want. We want a strong woven fabric that includes all of us.
In World War II on
D-Day on the beaches of Normandy those soldiers weren't saying to each
other "are you a Democrat? are you a Republican?" They were
saying "let us overcome this evil, this tyranny that is about to take
over the world."
We are an
exceptional nation, but we are in fact one nation. And the sooner
we understand that, the sooner we begin to make progress with our
problems and stop tearing each other down.
Think about that
when you look at that flag. Think about Fort McHenry and Francis
Scott Key as he sat on those British ships all night long thinking that
fort was going to be destroyed, the flag was going to be taken
down. But in the morning that flag was still flying. And if
you had come onto the grounds of Fort McHenry you would have seen dead
American soldiers lying there having taken turns holding up that
flag. That's what it meant to them, and that's what it should
mean to each one of us.
We all bring
something special to this nation. One of the reasons that America
reached the pinnacle so fast is because it had so many people from so
many backgrounds with so much talent. What happens when we learn
how to use that synergistically rather than allowing people to
manipulate us and put us into corners and making us fight each other.
We can and we must
do better.
It is amazing what
we will be able to do when we act like one nation.
Notes: A promo for his
forthcoming book, due out on May 20.