From the Archive: “As Long as the Lord Gives Me Breath in My Lungs” — Charlie’s Call to Christians

Charlie Kirk (0:03)

My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter. Go start a Turning Point USA high school chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life. And I encourage you to do the same. Here I am. Lord, use me. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go.

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And that's what Charlie Kirk does. I want you to stand at your feet, put your hands together. Let's give him a big welcome from American Faith. All right?

Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Honor to be here. And I just want to say you're supporting a very important cause tonight with American Faith. I get these links. There's Teresa. She sends me the links from American Faith like every single day. I think half of the web traffic comes from Teresa. I got to tell you. Honor to be here. That was a very beautiful presentation, wasn't it? And I want you to think just for a second here. I see my good friend Bill Federer, who's doing some of the most important work in the country. The people teaching, the people teaching your children think that display was ugly.

I want you to think about that. You want to know why this country is divided? Because the people running your colleges and high schools think what you just saw was inappropriate. You know it's inappropriate. Drag queens in front of 12-year-olds is inappropriate. That's beautiful.

And, you know, someone just said, why? How on earth could they think that's ugly? Well, because they believe that that flag right there represents evil, colonialism, racism, misogyny. If you don't believe it, come to one of these college campuses, and I'll show it to you. In fact, I recently did a visit at University of California Davis, a very mostly peaceful college campus visit, where they came with weapons and they tried to disrupt us. And Riley Gaines, the great Riley Gaines, we hosted at a Turning Point event, and they tried to hold her hostage and kidnap her. And this is why what American faith is doing is so important, because we're not debating policy anymore. We're going to decide whether or not we want this country to continue to exist. And I'm not being hyperbolic. I'm not exaggerating. It's the question of, is this flag, our traditions, our customs, our history, is it worth continuing? I believe a majority of Americans enthusiastically say yes. But then what is the issue? And this is really why what we're doing tonight is so important. The issue is many things. But if I had to simplify it, if I could wave a magic wand and fix one thing, it would be this. I wish we had elites that loved the country.

That is what is so unbelievably unique about what we're living through, is that this is a top-down revolution. The people with the money, the wealth, the prestige, and the power are the ones crushing the normal people. We've never lived through anything like this before. If you send your kid to government school, they'll hear that Andrew Carnegie and Rockefeller are the worst people ever, the Gilded Age. They all had problems. We're all human beings. We're all flawed. But at least Carnegie and Mellon and Rockefeller, they loved the country that made them a lot of money. These current oligarchs hate the country, and they want to spend their resources and their money and their time and treasure to make it unrecognizable. There's another unique thing that we're living through, is that it's the first ever revolution, where the people who want to assume control of the country, hate the country they want to assume control of. It's paradoxical. We've never seen, even the Bolsheviks said they loved Russia when they wanted to take over Russia from the czars. It's, I think America is racist and awful and evil and homophobic. Therefore, give me power. And that's largely insane, because why should we give you power of the very idea and the very place that you say is bitter from the beginning? Maybe you should leave that place if you hate it so much, not try to take it over. But here's how you know we live in a great country. America is such a great country that even those who say they hate it, refuse to leave.