Young Man Quotes - Page 6

• We would never throw up our hands and say to those white boys - well, too bad, if you had just stayed away from marijuana or not dealt dope to your friends when you were 18 you wouldn't be serving a life sentence in prison right now. You wouldn't be locked out of jobs, unable to even get work at McDonalds. No, instead we'd say, "What's wrong with us as a nation that we would condemn so many of our young men to a life of poverty, exclusion, and scorn simply because they made a few mistakes in their youth?".

  Michelle Alexander

  Jobs, Mistake, Boys

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The media needs to tell a story. And whenever there's a new generation, you know, with a new conversation, it's handy to say well, these are the angry young men, these are the hippies, these are the boomers.

  Naomi Wolf

  Hippie, Men, Media

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Our only teachers and role models for our young men cannot be, you know, videos, and, the hip hop community.

  Steve Harvey

  Teacher, Men, Role Models

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• The hip hop community is not at fault here - I'm definitely not blaming them. But, that can't be the only view of manhood for our young men.

  Steve Harvey

  Men, Views, Hip Hop

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• If you talk to these young men and women who are fighting, they'll tell you that they think it's a worthwhile cause, and they're fighting for freedom, and they-well, they-all I'm saying-the overwhelming majority of them do.

  John McCain

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

  "Bill Moyers talks with Jon Stewart". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• There are stories in the Bible about people telling other people how to do things. When you hear this young man say "we don't give up," that's something human beings who win will tell you every time. Breaks will happen. When they happen, you keep the same mind about what you're doing. It's about we the people getting on with our lives and doing it that way.

  Bill Cosby

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Winning

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• When people, particularly young people and especially young men, can't imagine themselves as heroes in narratives that they construct for themselves, they look to be heroes in some other way. So young men in America of, let's say, Muslim background, only a tiny, tiny minority - so small as to be almost zero - are likely to ever commit terrorist acts.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Zero, Hero, Men

  "From Refugees To Politics, Mohsin Hamid Writes The Change He Wants To See". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. March 9, 2018.

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• In a way, we can have a much easier discussion about the future of technology than we can about why a young man kills another man in a war.

  George Friedman

  War, Technology, Men

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I lived on the north side of Detroit. Right down the street from me there was a young man by the name of Smokey Robinson. I was very proud to live down the street from him because he was our only celebrity in town. He was singing with the Miracles.

  Diana Ross

  Men, Names, Miracle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You've got a generation of young men - almost all are young men - in situations of great economic hardship, where they don't really have work. The chances of them making a decent life for themselves, of making a family, living in a kind of decent, happy way, are very, very remote. It's very hard for them to ever even have that as a dream, so when people are that deprived of the ordinary hope of human beings, it creates anger. And that anger can be channeled by unscrupulous persons, whether secular or religious leaders, and there's been a lot of that.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Religious, Men

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I'll tell you one thing, when you have young men and women in combat operations and they lose their friends, one thing you quickly learn not to be ashamed of is tears.

  Rick Hillier

  Men, Tears, Operations

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I remember an experience once of a young man in our home who was gay. We just assumed it, based on his outward appearance. Gay people had a hard time in those days, in fifties since the police would create situations to lock them up.

  David C. Driskell

  Home, Gay, Hard Times

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• There was a young man in our community who said he wanted to be a minister, and my father was trying to mentor him in the ministry, and something supposedly happened in town.And this young man was jailed. I remember my father lamenting and saying, well, regardless of what happened, he's human; he's human like the rest of us and he deserves, to be heard and to be seen.

  David C. Driskell

  Father, Men, Community

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

  Edward Abbey

  Peace, Real, War

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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• Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

  Henry Adams

  Passion, Men, Young

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.166, Booklassic

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• Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Giving, 50th Birthday

  Joseph Addison (2016). “Cato: A tragedy in five acts”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Time, Learning, Men

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “Little Women”, p.254, Louisa May Alcott

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• It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Witty, Philosophical

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• I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Men, Thinking, Choices

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• Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

  Francis Bacon

  Marriage, Wedding, Men

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Marriage and the Single Life'

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• I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.

  Kevin Bacon

  Men, Games, Acting

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• I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet.

  Kevin Bacon

  Sleep, Men, Thinking

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

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• I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.

  F. Lee Bailey

  Men, Law, Criminals

  "F. Lee Bailey looks back on his legal career". Interview with Greta Van Susteren, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2000.

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• It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

  Abu Bakr

  Men, Sin, Young

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• I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

  Arthur Balfour

  Men, Promise, Young

  In Winston Churchill My Early Life (1930) ch. 17

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