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“in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.”

States Age Given United United States Youth Eternal Ignored Cult Eternal Youth

Book:Saturday's Child: A Memoir

Source: Saturday's Child: A Memoir

“In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.”

Way Giving Country States Facts Energy United Powerful United States Creative Youth

Book:Conversations with Isabel Allende

Source: Conversations with Isabel Allende

“Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.”

Long States United United States Modern Youth Rewards Administration Organs Unfair Superficial Observers Legislature Fetish Senility

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding and behavior of large portions of the youth population in the United States today.”

Source: Failing Liberty 101: How We Are Leaving Young Americans Unprepared for Citizenship in a Free Society

“The youth of this country are not behind what is going on. We all know that. If you looked at a [political] map of the United States 25 and under, it's all-revealing. It's a unified map.”

Ifs Knows Country States Political United Behinds United States Youth Maps Revealing Unified

Author:Neil Young

“The wave of punitiveness that washed over the United States with the rise of the drug war and the get tough movement really flooded our schools. Schools, caught up in this maelstrom, began viewing children as criminals or suspects, rather than as young people with an enormous amount of potential struggling in their own ways and their own difficult context to make it and hopefully thrive. We began viewing the youth in schools as potential violators rather than as children needing our guidance.”

“What I criticize is the message that the United States is sending to the youth of the world - to those of us who invite people to leave the ways of violence and the drug trade, we are not given a visa but those that sell drugs and weapons, yes.”

People World Way States Given United United States Violence Youth Drug Messages Weapons Trade Sells Criticize Invites Visa

Author:Juan Pablo Escobar

“When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.”

Way War States Problem Fighting Lost United Boys United States Figures Youth Taught Raised Soldier Betting American Soldier Boy Scout German Soldiers Hitler Youth

Author:Stephen Ambrose