In 2022, the late Charlie Kirk came to the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville as part of Turning Point USA’s “Educate Don’t Mandate Tour.”
Charlie spent an hour and a half speaking to the crowd and answering questions from individuals — many of whom disagreed with him.
Toward the end of his remarks, Kirk told a high school student:
If you make the decision to be an open conservative in your life it will come with a cost. It is unavoidable. … You’re going to be bullied. You’ll be called names. You’ll be ridiculed … But what’s really important is are you developing the soul of an individual? And when you’re fighting for things that are virtuous, and you’re getting backlash for them, that’s a great thing for a young person to go through. In fact it’s an essential thing for a young person to go through.
Charlie Kirk was tragically murdered on September 10 at an event on a college campus in Utah.
You can watch Charlie Kirk’s 2022 University of Arkansas speech and Q&A session below.
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