John Conyers Quotes

Our Party attaches great importance to the work with young people and firmly believes in them.

I've always been a youth advocate. I mean, that's been my brand, reaching out to young people. All my life, when I've dealt with youth I'd be thinking back to my own experience. Now I look at my kids and think forward.

To criminally prosecute a child not old enough to go to the school prom makes no sense, you get much more cooperation from a victim if you give them a safe harbor, a place to live, job training, an education.

I love the young people.

We have to let young people know that we care about them and their future. I want to involve them to a level where they become the leaders and the advocates because, right now, a lot of these young people don't believe they have an advocate.

I have a thing about working with young people. I adore them.

Empowering the youth is our responsibility, and the youth will be empowered with more investment on them.

Perhaps we need to separate youth from education. Education lasts forever. Youth is the time for exploration, maturation, socialization.

Youth Ministry, as traditionally organized, has also suffered the impact of social changes. Young people often fail to find responses to their concerns, needs, problems and hurts in the usual structures. As adults, we find it hard to listen patiently to them, to appreciate their concerns, demands, and to speak to them in a language they can understand.

As a Goodwill Ambassador for YouthAIDS, I've learned that the face of AIDS is increasingly young and female. By educating young people and empowering them to make the right choices we can stop the spread of HIV/AIDS

I have a lot of time for young people.

The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

Malala Day is not my day. Today is the day of every woman, every boy and every girl who have raised their voice for their rights.

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.

I am not here to speak against the Taliban. I'm here to speak up for the right of every child.

Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.

The value of making young people stupid, subject to an educational deficit has enormous currency in a society in which existing relations of power are normalized. Under such conditions, those who hold power accountable are reviewed as treasonous while critically engaged young people are denounced as un-American.

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.

The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.

Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.

Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.

Justice? Who asks for justice? We make our own justice ... Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.

I like to work with young people, because young people haven’t had their dreams kicked out of them yet. Full of confidence, and imagination, and vision, and when they score that all gets empowered.