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“I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.”

“Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”

“My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.”

Needs Stills Opportunity Failing Strength Youth Cunning

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.”

Men Problem Young Opportunity Cities Youth Solve Young Man Youngsters Unleashed

Author:Wes Moore

“India is the world's most youthful nation. A nation with such youth power cannot dream small. We cannot commit this crime. We should dream big, we should enable the youth to dream big and we should give them an opportunity to realize their dreams”

World Giving Should Dream Bigs Opportunity Nations Realizing Crime Youth India Commit

Author:Narendra Modi

“If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the knowledge to understand the world and the wisdom to change it, then the prospects for the future are bright. In contrast, a society which neglects its children, however well it may function in other respects, risks eventual disorganization and demise.”

Ifs World Wells May Children Opportunity Given Nations Education Risk Youth Capacity Function Neglect Contrast Prospects Demise Disorganization

Book:2 Wrlds Childhood

Source: 2 Wrlds Childhood

“If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.”

“Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country.”

Men Want Mind Firsts Country Order Opportunity Known Youth Possessing Inexperience

Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. IX (in 12 Volumes)

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. IX (in 12 Volumes)

“When I got back to NY had the opportunity to work with the beginning years of the poetry project which was founded with money from the OEO under Lyndon Johnson to work with alienated youth on the lower East side. This was extraordinary, to be able to help then to create a culture that would capture the energy that I felt at Berkley.”

Years Helping Able Culture Opportunity Energy Felt Sides Youth Projects Extraordinary East Capture Johnson East Side

Author:Anne Waldman