Today's Generation Quotes:

It has been difficult for [young people in the U.S.] to connect the dots between rising tuition costs and other assaults on their dignity with the ongoing assault on public life and its myriad democratic institutions. Today's generation faces an enormous battle in turning back the current assaults on the social state, higher education, and the social good.

- Henry Giroux

source: "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

topic: People, Battle, Today's Generation, Social Good

Today’s generation of young people holds more power than any generation before it to make a positive impact on the world.

- William J. Clinton

source: "Clinton’s Final Four" by Natalie Pace, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2011.

topic: Impact, People, Generations, Positive Impact, Today's Generation

The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment.

- Carol Ross Barney

source: Source: www.chicagotribune.com

topic: Challenges, Today, Generations, Today's Generation

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

- Alan Greenspan

topic: Numbers, Generations, Financial Literacy, Today's Generation

Technology that pollutes can also cleanse, production that amasses can also distribute justly, on condition that the ethic of respect for life and human dignity, for the rights of today's generations and those to come, prevails.

- Pope John Paul II

source: Pope John Paul II (2000). “Celebrate the Third Millennium: Facing the Future with Hope”, G K Hall & Company

topic: Technology, Rights, Environmental, Today's Generation

There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.

- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

topic: Opportunity, Voice, Way, Today's Generation

When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers.

- David Amram

topic: Believe, Book, Today, Today's Generation

I think there's a tremendous sense of complacency in the LGBT community. AIDS has lost the edge of horror it possessed when it swept through the world in the '80s. Today's generation sees it more as something to live with and something to be much less fearful of. And that comes with a sense of, dare I say, laziness. We need to be really vigilant and open about the fact that these drugs are not to be taken to increase our ability to have recreational sex.

- Zachary Quinto

topic: Sex, Taken, Thinking, Today's Generation, Lgbt Community

Today's gardens have become far more than things of beauty. And today's generation is fast finding out that backyards can be an extremely resourceful and powerful tool in not just providing food for the family but also a brilliant way of connecting children with the natural world.

- Jamie Durie

topic: Powerful, Children, Garden, Today's Generation

Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

- Tupac Shakur

topic: Inspirational, Greed, Generations, Elevation, Today's Generation

The Armenian Genocide is such a controversial and very sensitive issue because the Turkish and Armenian people disagree about the facts of what actually happened. I know how strongly Armenians feel about the Genocide, and how it's never been recognised. At the same time, I do not hold today's generation of people accountable.

- Khloe Kardashian

topic: Issues, People, Today, Turkish, Armenian Genocide

Jesus continues to offer light, joy, and peace to today's generation.

- David Jeremiah

topic: Jesus, Light, Joy, Today's Generation