Youth Exclusion Quotes

Nobody under the age of 55 should be able to stand for election, and nobody under the age of 30 should be able to vote in those elections.

Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society, and, as I've often said, people who are excluded from society tend to express themselves in ways not acceptable to society.

[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.

To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.

The jazz clubs wind up having only rich tourists - the kids can't come. If they do, then they spend their entire monthly allotments on a 45-minute set.

Gen Y is depicted as self-centred and apathetic when it comes to politics, but it doesn't help that we are largely overlooked. There have been policies to woo parents, pensioners and the sick, but the young do not appear to rank high on any political agenda.

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.

In most of America, it seems you don't matter if you're not between 25 and 50.