Richard Branson Quotes

At university, my generation were ready to fight, but we didn't really have anything to fight for.

I was inspired by what students have done in some schools organizing walkouts protesting the lack of funding and that sort of thing. There are opportunities for students to engage in those types of protests - taking to the streets - but there is also writing poetry, writing music, beginning to express themselves, holding forums, educating each other, the whole range.

Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history.

I did organize something in high school like a school walkout. These kids were locked up in their school, they weren't allowed out, but 3,000 school kids from Sydney walked out and protested. And I organized it from my mom's office at work. And I was 12.

There is a revolution in Germany, and we must ask ourselves, "Is there a revolution in the university?" No. The fighting is still in the skirmishing stage.

I never liked the status quo. Once I went to college, I got very involved in student activism.

We need punk now; we need it more than ever. We need rebellion by youth.

The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.

It's good for young people to be angry about something.

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.

Respect movements, flee schools.

You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.

We're seeing young people find their own voices and find their activism.

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.

What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up

Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on. But the old orders should not be moved easily - certainly not at the mere whim or behest of youth. There must be clash and if youth hasn't enough force or fervor to produce the clash the world grows stale and stagnant and sour in decay.

I think for real change to happen, it's going to have to come from the kids, the community, the teachers, the parents.

For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.

How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up in prison?

... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.

There have always been grievances and youth has always been the agitator.

I'll have 15 letters today from mostly young kids who don't like what's going on and want to do something about it, and [they ask me] if I can give them some advice as to what they should do, or can I tell them what to read or something.

Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

I watched a documentary about Freedom Riders. One young woman told her parents, 'I'm going to leave college to ride and represent the future.' I thought, 'Who would do that now?' Who would do that for my son?"