Vulnerable Youth Quotes

Satan knows that youth is the springtime of life when all things are new and young people are most vulnerable.

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.

Young people are at a higher risk of homelessness than adults and, when they find themselves in crisis, are too often overlooked by hard-pressed council homelessness departments.

No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.

It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.

Kids have to be tough to survive on the streets of Kathmandu, where older gang members often beat and rob them. They face cold winters, hunger, homelessness, and unsympathetic police. But under each hardened shell there is still a child.

I came out to my family when I was 13. I was a very young kid, a vulnerable kid.

If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?

We can't forget that there are so many young people who are homeless - and unbelievably vulnerable.

We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.

What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.

Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew.

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'm never not going to be interested in young girls who are struggling in poor places.

We cannot leave vulnerable young men open to the exploitation of extremists, both for our own security and their own wellbeing.

We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be left more vulnerable, other that laziness or callousness in considering what life is like from their point of view.

I love the most the students with troubled lives.

For young people in the U.K. who find themselves without anywhere to live - perhaps they have left the family home after a relationship breakdown, or to escape abuse, or have left care - it is far too easy to become trapped in a chain of misfortune, with little help from the state.

In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here.

We need to be creative with young people. If they have no opportunities, they will get into drugs and be vulnerable to suicide.

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives... So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

I like this idea of generation after generation helping children on the streets, kids who have run away fleeing violence. I like the whole idea of opening arms for children who have nowhere else to go, sleeping by dumpsters.

Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people. He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan.

I look at some of the kids that I interact with, and they were born with so many disadvantages. And you could start off in your first interaction with them saying, "Unless they get a lot of compensatory help, they're not going to be able to compete; they're just so far behind, and they're wounded and they're hurt."

It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.