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Guard
your light and protect it. Move it forward into
the world and be fully confident that if we
connect light to light to light, and join the
lights together of the one billion young people
in our world today, we will be enough to set
our whole planet aglow.
-- Hafsat
Abiola
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If
I am young and wrong, then you are right [to look
down on my youthful ignorance.] But if I am young
and right, what does my age matter? Antigone Aesculus
"Young
people should be at the forefront of global
change and innovation. Empowered, they can
be key agents for development and peace. If,
however, they are left on society's margins,
all of us will be impoverished. Let us ensure
that all young people have every opportunity
to participate fully in the lives of their
societies."
--
Kofi
Annan
"No
one is born a good citizen; no nation is born
a democracy. Rather, both are processes that
continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young
people must be included from birth. A society
that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline."
-- Kofi
Annan
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Young
people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter
for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new
projects than for settled business.
-- Francis Bacon
"We
should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our
boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow
sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and
thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with
others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler
kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in
the claims of others and which lead our country into
comradeship with...the other nations of the world.
The first step to this end is to develop peace and
goodwill within our borders, by training our youth
of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life,
so that the jealousies of town against town, class
against class and sect against sect no longer exist;
and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers
towards our neighbours."
-- Lord Baden-Powell
“What
is needed now are increased efforts to promote
youth participation and commitment; more services
aimed at youth; more parental involvement;
more education and information, using schools
and other sites; more protection for girls,
orphaned children and young women;and more
partnerships with people with HIV and AIDS.“
-- Carol
Bellamy
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"We
have a powerful potential in our youth, and
we must have the courage to change old ideas
and practices so that we may direct their power
toward good ends."
-- Mary
McLeod Bethune
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The young do not know enough to be prudent,
and therefore they attempt the impossible,
and achieve it, generation after generation.
-- Pearl
S. Buck
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Too
many people grow up. That's the real trouble with
the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They
don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old.
They patronize, they treat children as inferiors.
-- Walt Disney
We
live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent
can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the
coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented
by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are
the trustees of Posterity.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
"Children
organizing for political rights will probably be treated
initially with ridicule and derision, and then with
misunderstanding and perhaps eventually violence if
the experience of the struggle for women's suffrage
is any precedent. Undoubtedly the greatest obstacle
to be overcome is the adult refusal to acknowledge
that children suffer political discrimination and
exclusion. Adults do not perceive children as a minority
group but as helpless, inexperienced, defenseless
young people who need protection. Adult paternalism
seeks to protect and if in this process it curtails
freedom, truncates potential and destroys civil liberties
this is taken to be incidental. The belief in the
legitimacy of paternalism justifies and cements the
existing power relationships between adults and young
people. This attitude must be confronted, challenged
and refuted if young people are to secure their political
rights..."
-- Bob Franklin "The Rights of Children"
Age
is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.
-- Robert Heinlein
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What
greater cause and what more splendid adventure
can be set before the youth of the world than
the endeavor to bring into being that age-old
dream of saints and sages - the great Commonwealth
of the World as the visible embodiment of the
brotherhood of man?
-- Arthur
Henderson
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Through
our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were
touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at
the outset that life is a profound and passionate
thing.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Blessed
are the young for they shall inherit the national
debt.
-- Herbert Clark Hoover
"Peace is a culture that we create by putting
it in the curriculum for young people, through
creating this next generation where young
people get a chance to go across borders,
across cultures, to learn more about each
other's life, to create a global community,
learn about opportunities for helping others.
It's investing in peace and tolerance training,
ending the gap between rich and poor."
-- Craig
Kielburger
"If
we are to achieve true peace in this world,
it shall have to begin with the children."
-- Craig
Kielburger
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"Regardless
of what the law or your teachers have to say about
this, you are as human as anyone over the age of 18
or 21, yet, 'minors' are one of the most oppressed
groups of people in the world, and certainly the most
discriminated against legally."
-- Grace Llewellyn "The Teenage Liberation Handbook"
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"The
young generation can influence their elders and
can make them understand the environmental problems
that are faced by us today. The youth can make
them see that our environment is deteriorating
day by day."
~ Chief
Oren Lyons |
The
attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted
by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood
and its leadership to confront larger predicaments.
No rescue by the monied, governing, institutional,
or otherwise privileged is in sight. It's up to the
energy and inventiveness of the younger generation
to pull the gated minds of millennium America toward
acceptance of diversity, community, and fairness,
and I hope they have as much fun as I did in my adolescences
achieving what we Sixties kids only imagined.
-- Mike Males
Every
youth owes it to himself and to the world to make
the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...
Orison Swett Marden
I'm
fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars
for young men to die in.
-- George
McGovern |
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We
have the most prolonged adolescence in the history
of mankind. There is no other society that requires
so many years to pass before people are grown
up ... Adolescence is nurtured and prolonged by
educational processes and by industry that has
found a bonanza in embracing the adolescent population
and fortifying 'adolescent values.' This prolongation
of adolescence robs the country of the population
group having the most risk takers, and the highest
ideals.
-- Ralph
Nader |
Our
goal is to establish a permanent Youth Assembly
on the global level that would serve to represent
the voices, ideas, concerns and solutions of youth
to the issues that directly affect their lives.
-- Benjamin
Quinto |
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We
cannot always build the future for our youth,
but we can build our youth for the future.
-- Franklin
D. Roosevelt
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Don't
let anyone think little of you because you are young.
-- 1 Timothy 4:12
“What
should young people do with their lives today? Many
things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to
create stable communities in which the terrible disease
of loneliness can be cured.”
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (American writer, b.1922)
"Young
people need models, not critics"
-- John Wooden (b.1910)
Youth
from across the globe use online games to connect
with each other and form friendships and communities
that defy borders.
-- Jong-Yong Yun
