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"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."
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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
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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
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“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
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Youth,
which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself
everything, is forgiven nothing.
-- George
Bernard Shaw | 
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...you
can make little choices that can change the world to be a better, happier, lovelier
place every day
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It's important to see what we can do to make a difference, but it's more important
to me to do it every single day.
-- Alicia
Silverstone |
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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
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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
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How
could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
-- Henry David Thoreau
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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
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There
is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
-- Mark
Twain | 
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“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.
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"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
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The
new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
-- Simon Wiesenthal
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"Young people need
models, not critics"
-- John Wooden
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The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation
to bind them together.
-- Neil
Young
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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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