Young People Quotes

Let me be clear, he did not come to pray. He did not come to express remorse or consolation, he did not come to share the grief or to provide hope to the thousands of young people who were gathered in the park that day.

– Mariann Budde

Episcopal Bishop of Washington on Donald Trump’s photo op at St. John’s Church near White House.

So America, we proclaim as we memorialize George Floyd: Do not cooperate with evil. Join the young people in the streets protesting against the evil, the inhumane, the torture that they witnessed on that video.

– Benjamin Crump

Young people…are enraged. And there’s an easy way to stop it. Arrest the cops. Charge the cops. Charge all the cops. Not just some of them. Not just here in Minneapolis. Charge them in every city across America where our people are being murdered.

– Tamika Mallory

On rioting following death of black man George Floyd.

We showed that we are united and that we, young people, are unstoppable.

– Greta Thunberg

UN Youth Climate Summit, New York City, 21 September 2019.

This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. Yet I am one of the lucky ones. People are suffering.

– Greta Thunberg

At UN climate action summit, New York, 23 September 2019.

We have to understand the emergency of the situation. Our leadership has failed us. Young people must hold older generations accountable for the mess they have created. We need to get angry, and transform that anger into action.

– Greta Thunberg

On climate crisis failures.

Educating young people about the harms of drugs is essential.

– John Walters

My job is to be a role model, and that’s what I want to do, but my job isn’t to be a parent. My job isn’t to tell your kids how to act or how not to act, because I’m still figuring that out for myself. So to take that away from me is a bit selfish. Your kids are going to make mistakes whether I do or not. That’s just life.

– Miley Cyrus