American Youth Quotes:

American youth is looking for a reason to die.

- Jerry Rubin

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

topic: Youth, Reason, American Youth

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Social Equality, Love And Hate

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

- Marshall McLuhan

topic: Reality, Voting, Age, Inspirational Voting, American Voters

We have a powerful potential in out 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

source: 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

topic: Powerful, Practice, Ideas, Courage To Change, Unlimited Potential

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

topic: Blessing, Blood, America, Guarded, American Youth

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

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Happy Birthday, Time, Children, Young Mother, Wonderful Experience

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

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Time, 4th Of July, America, American Youth

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate...

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Hate, Social Equality, Love And Hate, Make Peace Not War, Social Programs

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

source: Source: wethekids.us

topic: Country, Liberty, Legacy, Previous Generations, American Exceptionalism

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

topic: Desire, Purpose, Way, American Youth

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

topic: Education, Country, Government, American Youth, Implants

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

- Donald Trump

source: Source: time.com

topic: Jobs, Eight, African American, American Youth

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

- Francis Parker Yockey

topic: Ideas, Atmosphere, Youth, Leftists, American Youth

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

- Eric Allin Cornell

topic: Teenage, Years, Culture, American Youth, Youth Culture

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

topic: Country, Son, Years, Demolish, American Youth

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

- Rose McGowan

source: FaceBook post by Rose McGowan from Aug 23, 2013

topic: Jobs, Deviance, Youth, American Youth

...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

topic: Children, Garden, Cities, Elders, Horticulture

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

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

topic: Baseball, Responsibility, Games, Major League Baseball, American Youth