American Youth Quotes

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  Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Reality, Voting Age, Political

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  We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Courage, Powerful, Unlimited Potential

  Mary McLeod Bethune, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith (2001). “Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents”, p.61, Indiana University Press

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• Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence.

  Joseph Story

  Blessing, Blood, America

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  Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Family

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, 4th Of July, America

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1024, GENERAL PRESS

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• Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Hate, Light

  "A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings".

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• The message for the American youth is that this is a great country and we need to make sure that we pass on a heritage, a lineage and a legacy of American exceptionalism to each and everyone of you so that you can enjoy all the great liberties and freedoms that all the previous generations have had.

  Allen West

  Country, Liberty, Legacy

  Source: wethekids.us

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• The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek to become a good public speaker.

  George Frisbie Hoar

  Desire, Purpose, Way

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• It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the sciences but may implant in the minds of the American youth the principles of virtue and of liberty and inspire them with just and liberal ideas of government and with an inviolable attachment to their own country.

  Noah Webster

  Education, Country, Government

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• Fifty-eight percent of African- American youth don't have jobs.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Eight, African American

  Source: time.com

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• Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Ideas, Atmosphere, Youth

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• The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Teenage, Years, Culture

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• We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country to do it....I do not intend to remain silent in the face of what I regard as a policy of madness which, sooner or later, will envelop my son and American youth by the millions for years to come.

  George McGovern

  Country, Son, Years

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• It's my job to spread deviance to the American youth.

  Rose McGowan

  Jobs, Deviance, Youth

  FaceBook post by Rose McGowan from Aug 23, 2013

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• ...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.

  David Fairchild

  Children, Garden, Cities

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• American youth is looking for a reason to die.

  Jerry Rubin

  Youth, Reason, Dies

  Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

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• Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth.

  Bud Selig

  Baseball, Responsibility, Games

  "MLB Launches Anti-Steroid Campaign at Classic". Epoch Times, March 23, 2006.

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