Activism Quote by Morgan Carroll

“There we were, a small bunch of rather bright and fortunate young people, thinking ourselves somehow special and exceptional, but really very naive.”

— Fritz Leiber

“It became my mission to work with young people to help show them the way, not save them! But help them understand that there…

— Jose A. Aviles

“...young people...who were casually profane, as though the validation of their own power could be achieved only by their assault on the sensibilities of…

— James Lee Burke

“This shows that the ordinary person is wanting more for their lives. They want to be of help, they want to make things better.”

— Linda Armstrong

“Already at the age of sixteen I wondered at them gloomily; I was amazed at the pettiness of their minds, the stupidity of their…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...”

— Nick Joaquín

“Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.”

— Samuel Butler

“People only talk about how wonderful youth is when they have forgotten how hard it was.”

— Louis L'Amour

“teenagers are almost a different species than the rest of us, particularly in social situations.”

— David Sheff

“The young people I loved have probably been wiped away by the real world, existing only as they once were in my memories.”

— Sophia Danton The Bull Years

“I tried to do that very difficult thing, imagine old people young again and invested with the graces of youth. But”

— Charles Dickens

“I had developed, early on, the habit of low expectations, and of letting my life be directed by whatever person happened to come along…

— Joyce Maynard