Barack Obama Quotes About Youth

• 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

  Money, Educational, Responsibility

• America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it - so long as we seize it together.

  Barack Obama

  America, Diversity, Long

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

• We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.

  Barack Obama

  Book, Black Youth, White

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

• Like no other illness, AIDS tests our ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes - to empathize with the plight of our fellow man. While most would agree that the AIDS orphan or the transfusion victim or the wronged wife contracted the disease through no fault of their own, it has too often been easy for some to point to the unfaithful husband or the promiscuous youth or the gay man and say This is your fault. You have sinned. I don't think that's a satisfactory response. My faith reminds me that we all are sinners.

  Barack Obama

  Husband, Gay, Fighting

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

• Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over - unless we find new ways of producing energy.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Air, Car

  Barack Obama's remarks at Young African Leaders Initiative Town Hall at the White House in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 29, 2013.

• Young people recognize the big challenges that are coming up.

  Barack Obama

  People, Challenges, Youth

• 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

  Thinking, Issues, People

You May Also Like:

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton

Michelle Obama

Ann Dunham

William J. Clinton

George W. Bush

Maya Soetoro-Ng