Ben Legarreta:
CLASS OF 2000
Montgomery Blair High SchoolClass of 2000
Silver spring, MD
Ben's Story
Ben is from Silver Spring, Maryland. Ben's schools include Montgomery Blair High School. Ben later attended Montgomery College, University of Maryland, College Park (History) .
Movies Ben likes include The Princess Bride, Rocky, Patton. TV shows Ben likes include ESPN, Curb Your Enthusiasm.
One of Ben's favorite quotes is:""At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems--the answer for all the problems of the world--come to a single word. That word is education."
-President Lyndon Johnson
"Fortune is the arbiter of half our actions. She leaves the other half, or close to it, for us to govern."
-Niccolo Machiavelli
"How ridiculous not to avoid wronging others, which I have the power to do, while wishing to avoid being wro...Expand for more
nged by others whose actions are beyond my control!"
-Marcus Aurelius
"As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they asked, and rightly so, 'What about Vietnam?' They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems... Their questions hit home, and I knew I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today; my own government."
- Martin Luther King Jr.".
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