Sister Souljah Quotes

Many of the young people living in inner-city America don't see themselves - I mean, they even talk about things like death and dying. And there's a tremendous loss of hope. And of all the things to lose, I think nothing is worse or more difficult to overcome than the loss of hope.

The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.

I don't know about you, but there is nothing that's scarier than young people who have no future. If you take away someone's future, they have nothing to lose.

A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.

I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

The old always think the world is getting worse; it is for the young, equipped with historical facts, to point out that, compared with 1509, or even 1939, life in 2009 is sweet as honey.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

It’s hard for the young to live in uncertainty…. Our founders lived in great uncertainty.

Books are for adults; revolution is for the young.

Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.

This is not class warfare, this is generational warfare. This administration and old wealthy people have declared war on young people. That is the real war that is going on here. And that is the war we've got to talk about.

One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person.

I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.

The end of the First World War had thrown Germany's youth into great turmoil. The reins of power had fallen from the hands of a deeply disillusioned older generation, and the younger ones drew together in larger and smaller groups to blaze new paths or, at least, to discover a new star to steer by.

You can see what happens when people don't feel they have a chance. You can see the ramifications of that.

I feel so guilty about the state of young people today. And I say that because our generation fought for everything. We fought to sit down at a counter, to sit on a bus. They were left with nothing to fight for.

There's a great feeling of powerlessness in America. When I express ideas to people, they say, 'That's terrific, but do you think it really counts?'

I have lived poverty. I didn't choose it. No one would choose humiliation, pain, and rage.

In Chicago, a lot of people don't really got nothing to live for. Everybody can't ball. Everybody can't rap. Nobody is really doing those activities. There's nothing to do but the streets.

In Cameroon, kids have many problems. They think everything is lost before they are born. It seems like they are not allowed to dream. They are not allowed to be ambitious. They just accept being the victim of their life.

Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don't understand it. It's like America has lost faith in rational thought.

It's like when something good is happening with young people, then the old, grey people in power will be like: 'No! It cannot be like this!'

Young people are narcissistic. They become less narcissistic as they age, but they become crankier about younger people being narcissistic.