Ben Carson
American public life in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries produced a number of figures who moved between medicine, writing, and politics. Ben Carson, born in Detroit on September 18, 1951, is one of the more striking examples of that kind of career, having worked as a neurosurgeon, university teacher, writer, and politician across several decades.
Carson attended Southwestern High School before going on to Yale University and then the University of Michigan, where he also completed his medical training at the University of Michigan Medical School. Those years of education set him on a path in neurosurgery that would eventually be accompanied by work as a writer and, later, by a sustained presence in American political life. He is considered one of the most prominent black conservatives in the United States, a distinction that has shaped how his public roles have been interpreted and discussed.
On the political side, Carson ran as a candidate in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries and subsequently served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021. That government post, combined with his earlier medical and academic career, gave him an unusually broad public profile. He has also worked as a university teacher, adding an instructional dimension to his professional life that sits alongside his surgical and writing work.
The recognition Carson has received reflects the range of his activities. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Spingarn Medal, and the Horatio Alger Award, and he was named a Library of Congress Living Legend. Spelman College granted him an honorary degree. Taken together, those honors span fields as different as public service, civil achievement, and academic distinction, and they point to a career that has crossed several professional boundaries. The Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the highest civilian honors the United States government awards, stands as perhaps the most formally significant recognition on that list.
Quotes by Ben Carson
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It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
Totalitarianism always starts with restrictions on the rights of others. We must avoid this at all costs. George Washington even said, “If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
I’ve had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can’t afford to throw any young people away.
The best way to respond to distracting personal attacks is to practice bringing the conversation back to the issue at hand. Never fall into the trap of engaging in personal attacks while letting the topic of conversation slip into the background. Doing so allows your opponent to escape the need to explain her position.
Then let’s use this incredible tool God has given us to assess the risks that we face every day. We have the means to analyze risks and decide which are worth taking and which should be avoided. Do you have a brain? Then use it. That’s the secret. That’s my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.
I wish the government would read the Constitution. I think that would probably help quite a bit. And maybe they did read it and maybe they got confused when they read the preamble which says one of the duties is to promote the general welfare.
What the Muslim Brotherhood said in the explanatory memorandum that was discovered during the Holy Land Foundation Trial was that, “they will take advantage of our PC attitude to get us”.
The babies had been successfully anesthetized after only a few hours, a complex procedure because of their shared blood vessels.