The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

You can rebel in different ways. Civil disobedience is rebelling. As long as it’s peaceful, of course.

It’s empowering to know I am doing something, I am taking a stand, I am disrupting.

Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

I liberate minds with my music. That’s more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

We can no longer save the world by playing by the rules.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

It’s a facet of the gay rights movement that people don’t think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn’t until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana’s ‚head and master rule,‘ that the husband was head and master of the house.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

For way too long the politicians and people in power have got away with not doing anything at all to fight the climate crisis and ecological crisis.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

I love the women’s movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Every once in a while, I get mad. ‚The Lorax‘ came out of my being angry. The ecology books I’d read were dull… In ‚The Lorax,‘ I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King’s success and the crusade of others. I think we kind of breathed a sigh of relief as if we had achieved the end of racial discrimination or white supremacy.

It’s always going to be a fight for anyone who isn’t an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn’t have a fight.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

I think the whole stigma of ‚black movies‘ is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like ’12 Years A Slave,‘ to ‚The Butler,‘ to ‚The Best Man,‘ to ‚Ride Along,‘ to even ‚Think Like a Man‘ from last year – these movies are just good movies.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it’s American or British interests involved.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.