Darryl Pinckney Quotes

The good news is I think there are a lot of young people certainly who were involved in my campaigns, and I think continue to be involved in work not just politically, but through nonprofits and other organizations, that can carry this hard work of democracy forward.

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

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

Ben Affleck exec-produced a documentary for HBO called 'Reporter' about my 2007 win-a-trip journey. I take the trip each year partly to encourage young people to think about global humanitarian issues: I think blogs by a student may be more compelling for that audience than my own work.

I hope that young people will also look to politics as a vehicle to not only have their voices heard, but actually to be the change makers that they want to see. They are disaffected, understandably, but I hope that young people will not only turn out to vote but also run for office.

Wherever I go, I get a sense of longing for community and the desire on the part of grassroots citizens to be part of something bigger and far nobler than themselves. This attitude is particularly evident among the young, many of whom feel deprived of a great cause in which to enlist. .

I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.

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

I am worried that Americans I have met on my journey across the country, seem very hopeless and are feeling powerless to make change and are feeling passive. I'm not blaming them. But one thing we need at a time like this is for people to feel empowered and angry.

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

When they [young people] believe they are the difference! That their voice matters and to use the incredible power each one of them has. I work with an amazing young man, Jaylen Arnold, who started a foundation and a movement to educate people about tolerance and to stop bullying when he was eight years old. He never ceases to inspire me.

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

I believe that the only true agents of change on a large scale, in this country or anywhere, are young people.

I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That's the important thing.

I think this generation can play a very important role. If we act now, this could be the first generation to witness universal education.

I'm lucky enough to have a kid with me who is actually really intellectually up with what's going on in the world and actually puts his money where his mouth is and goes and does something about it; he goes and talks about it. It livens you up a bit and it brings you into the 21st Century.

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.

I think being able to identify with young people and...their capacity to change the world and shake things up. I think that's the greatest strength.

If you young people who today belong to the first generation of the 21st century make an effort now, you may be able to create a happier, more peaceful world. But you can't take for granted that it will happen by itself, you'll need to take action.

It is important not only to have the awareness and to feel impelled to become involved, it's important that there be a forum out there to which one can relate, an organization- a movement.

The youth are the catalysts for real change.

All too often the worst thing that can happen to the young is to depoliticize them. When that happens, not only are young people told that they do not count – your agency is worthless, your experiences are worthless, and your voice should remain silent – but they are also told that there is no alternative to current state of affairs.

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

I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.

Desaparecidos try to be the opposite of apathetic. There are so many young people in America that are apathetic.