"Sometimes older folks tell me: 'I was idealistic and thought I could change the world once, too, but then I grew up.' I'm trying to help us change our definition of growing up, so that it ceases to mean giving up on our ideals, and comes to mean learning how to live our dreams, every day, on the Earth. I want to awaken the passion and creativity of youth, combine it with the wisdom, experience and insight of elders, and transform our world." ~ Ocean Robbins

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Education is critical for people to become compassionate. If you don't know the problem and you don't know the reality, how can you help? -- Marla Ruzicka

“Youth involvement has moved forward. It is no longer seen as a rebellious act, the way it was a few decades ago.”
-- Maureen A. Sedonaen

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. -- George Bernard Shaw

I live in a country where we put children in shackles and in concrete cells. Working together, with righteousness and hope, we can create a country that is about reverence and reconciliation, not a world of shackles and concrete cells. -- Lateefah Simon

I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged. -- Maurice Strong

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? -- Henry David Thoreau

Don't let anyone think little of you because you are young.
-- 1 Timothy 4:12

"The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile."
-- Alvin Toffler

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. -- Mark Twain

“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.

* "I fervently believe that, as someone has said before, "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures." -- Kanye West

The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it. -- Simon Wiesenthal

"Young people need models, not critics"
-- John Wooden

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together. -- Neil Young

Youth from across the globe use online games to connect with each other and form friendships and communities that defy borders.
-- Jong-Yong Yun

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