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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
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In
less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor
movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement!
The women's movement! The disability movement! The disarmament movement! The gay
rights movement! The environmental movement! Movement! Transformation! Is there
any reason to believe we are done? -- Holly
Near
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“Young
people were once considered relatively safe from HIV/AIDS. “Today, their lives
and futures are at risk throughout the world because of this disease. I believe
it is young people throughout the world who offer us the greatest hope for defeating
this deadly pandemic.” -- Liam
Neeson
We have an obligation and
a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make
sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money,
can still get the best education possible. -- Barack
Obama
young
people recognize the big challenges that are coming up... -- Barack
Obama
*
I
do think that you're starting to see young people pay attention to some longterm
issues that they feel Washington has neglected. -- Barack
Obama
*
A
social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality, and one
of the great ideas of our time is pluralism. Can people from different backgrounds
live together in mutual peace and loyalty? And what we need is a generation of
young social entrepreneurs who know how to make that great idea reality in an
historical moment where religious extremists are, frankly, making their idea reality.
-- Eboo Patel
*
Our
generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected
world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place. -- Natalie
Portman
*
Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing
support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable
tool than to change the world? -- Natalie
Portman
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Our generation has the ability and the responsibility
to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful,
stable and peaceful place.
-- Natalie
Portman
*
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
If
a person would intervene on behalf of one child, shouldn't we all be intervening
for those thousands of children? So we're asking young people to get involved.
We want young people especially to know what's going on and to figure out what
they can do about it." -- Benjamin
Quinto
