Ben Carson Quotes
If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
Carson, Ben. "National Prayer Breakfast Keynote Address." National Prayer Breakfast, 7 Feb. 2013, Washington, D.C.
“Small” in this case refers to the quality of the grinding of the mill. The smaller the grains the better the milling. So the proverb says that although slow, it is very effective.
As a slave holder himself, this was a dramatic statement. Slavery was immoral, God’s justice will not be on the white slave owners side, a slave revolt or other event could occur and change things radically. One great puzzlement of American history has been why Jefferson, who wrote so eloquently against slavery and predicted the disaster that would come. would himself keep his slaves and never free them as George Washington did. Some argue that he was so broke financially, that he could not afford to free them.
This is one of the passages of the Bible that Christian Kings cited in expecting obedience. Most of the monarchs took this passage to mean that God had selected and appointed them to rule.
Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. is an American retired neurosurgeon, author, and politician who served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021. He was a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 Republican primaries. He is considered a pioneer in the field of neurosurgery.
