Adam Fletcher Quotes About Discrimination

• The outcome of this culture of discrimination is that young people are routinely denied the roles in society they can, should, and need to be occupying.

  Adam Fletcher

  People, Needs, Culture

• Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people.

  Adam Fletcher

  People, Addresses, Honest

• Young people often serve as scapegoats for the challenges communities face. At the same time, they are routinely pushed away from connecting to their communities as serious problem-solvers capable of changing the world.

  Adam Fletcher

  People, Community, Challenges

• Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.

  Adam Fletcher

  Knowing, People, Pet

• The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.

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  United States, Patterns, Discrimination

• Adultism is not always harmful-but it is always real.

  Adam Fletcher

  Real, Discrimination

• Young people and adults need equitable relationships-they do not need equal ones.

  Adam Fletcher

  People, Adults, Needs

• Adultism leads to a phenomenon of little adults, who are young people who are treated as adults-in-the-making. A non-discriminatory perspective would be to treat children and youth as whole and complete people right now.

  Adam Fletcher

  Children, People, Perspective

• Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.

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  People, Decision, Discrimination

• Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools.

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  School, People, Dropping Out

• For every young person living on the streets tonight, there are many at home zoning out inside their homes through video games, and even more who disengage from school. These are direct effects of internalized discrimination based on their age.

  Adam Fletcher

  Home, School, Direct Effect

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