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The_Edwards_Notebook-Three_Great_Men022025 · The Ron Edwards American Experience V2

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  Speaker 1: Frederick Douglas, George Washington Carver, and my own Dad would
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  Speaker 1: be furious about current approaches to race relations in America. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Ron Edwards. On today's page from the Edward's Notebook.
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  Speaker 1: Frederick Douglass became arguably the greatest orator of the nineteenth century,
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  Speaker 1: a champion for freedom, and a US ambassador. George Washington
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  Speaker 1: Carver became a world renowned inventor. My own dearly departed
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  Speaker 1: dad was a valiant military hero, hard working family man,
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  Speaker 1: and the world's greatest dad. All three men at a
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  Speaker 1: few positive traits in common. One, they did not allow
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  Speaker 1: their goals or actions to be dictated by those seeking
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  Speaker 1: to either oppress them physically or otherwise. Two, they never
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  Speaker 1: saw themselves as victims. They viewed obstacles, whatever they were,
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  Speaker 1: as situations, things, or certain people to simply overcome. Frederick Douglas,
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  Speaker 1: George Washington Carver, and my own Dad utilized their God
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  Speaker 1: given talents, brains, and honest effort to vastly improve their
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  Speaker 1: chances of success in this life, despite certain problems they
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  Speaker 1: all faced. They never hated the United States, but rather
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  Speaker 1: sought to encourage America to remember that all men are
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  Speaker 1: created equal with certain unalienable rights which come from God.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Ron Edwards. Check out thee rodedwards dot com.