Petra Collins Quotes

Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for.

Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.

It is easy to overlook the importance of the young in underdeveloped countries. It is the natural course for nations, and diplomats, and those who publish newspapers, to speak to the established order. Seeking out the young requires a conscious effort.

We should entrust our young people with a voice to express their views on what their futures should look like.

Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us.

Teenagers have a legitimate voice. We deserve to have a seat at the table and a place in the conversation. We're not exempt from politics and social movements; we're affected by them.

I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.

Let us acknowledge and celebrate what youth can do to build a safer, more just world. Let us strengthen our efforts to include young people in policies, programmes and decision-making processes that benefit their futures and ours.

Young people are this country [America], and we need to speak out.

There's a lot of spaces that care about what kids are buying. There are a lot of spaces that care about what kids are watching. But there aren't a lot of spaces that care about what kids are saying.

The more youth begin to recognize that they have a voice, the more change is possible.

I don't know about the world, but I know kids. And I feel like sometimes kids don't get involved because they think, what can I do? I'm just a kid. And really kids can do so much.

I am the president of the youth of France.

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.

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

Most organizations see young people as problems to be solved. We see young people as problem-solvers.

I'm 28 years old. In my country, that's considered very young. It's almost like the youth don't matter to the up-and-ups.

It is important how we view the youth of our nation. To simply consider them as new age voters will be a big mistake. They are the new age power.

Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.

We need young people to be involved, and we have to expect that young people are going to be impatient, they don't want to wait, and they've got new ideas and new ways of looking at problems.

Our nation is filled with tremendous energy of the youth. Whatever future we desire of, we must keep the youth at the centre. If we do this, we can surge ahead at an unmatchable pace!

I want young people to be involved, and I especially want young people to vote.

When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

Teens affect history. They affect lives; they affect our cultural growth and change, and yet, and at the same time, they are often the most vulnerable among us.

I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.