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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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 |
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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