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

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

“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

* 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

 

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Hafsat Abiola | Kofi Annan | Craig Kielburger
Chief Oren Lyons | Benjamin Quinto

Intl. Youth Day - August 12