Dinesh D'Souza: Self
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Dinesh D'Souza : I Love America.
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Elizabeth Warren : You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for! You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate! You were safe in your factory because of police force and fire forces that the rest of us paid for!
Dinesh D'Souza : Is Senator Warren right? Entrepreneurs and business owners do use public services, but so does everyone else. Let's say, a successful business owner makes four times as much as the average employee. But she also pays four times as much in taxes. Do her kids get four times more attention in public school? Does she get to drive four times as fast on the freeway? Will the fire department arrive four times faster? No. Not at all.
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Dinesh D'Souza : The Revolution was a struggle for the creation of America. The Civil War was a struggle for the preservation of America. World War II was a struggle for the protection of America. Our struggle is for the restoration of America. President Reagan once said, "Ours is the only national anthem that ends with a question. Every generation must answer that question." Let us resolve to fight for America as if the outcome of the struggle depended on us alone. We cannot do anything less. This is our home.
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Madame C.J. Walker : See, ladies, you don't have to define yourself by your current station in life. But only by your vision of who you become. Today you see a success. And I hear many of you say, "But, Madam Walker, I just don't have the opportunities you had." And I respond, "Really?" I was the first freeborn in my family. Orphaned at seven. Married at 14 and widowed with child by 20. I'm a woman that came from the cotton fields of the South. From there, I was promoted to the washtub. From there, I was promoted to the cook kitchen. From there, I promoted myself to the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations. I built my own factory on my own ground. I got my start by giving myself a good start. Ladies, there is no flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I haven't found it. If I've accomplished anything in my life, it's because I was willing to work hard. You can do something new today. And don't be too haughty. You can always go to that washtub for a seat.
Dinesh D'Souza : [about Madam C.J. Walker] What a role model. So why is she left out of the history books? Because she confounds the shame narrative. She's an African American success story. In a way, she sounds like Martin Luther King. King once said, " Every man must write with his own hand the charter of his Emancipation Proclamation. We are all in this country a minority of one and how we succeed or fail depends on our efforts."
