Youth Participation Quotes

Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for development and peace.

It is tragic that so few young people in Western democracies vote. They have forgotten that their ancestors fought for the right to choose and change their leaders. They don't realise that their votes are more important than their tweets or Facebook posts.

Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for.

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.

Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for development and peace. If, however, they are left on society's margins, all of us will be impoverished. Let us ensure that all young people have every opportunity to participate fully in the lives of their societies.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

There are 16 year olds competing at the olympics and i still push on pull doors & struggle getting through the whole day without a nap.

Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline; it is condemned to bleed to death.

It is important how we view the youth of our nation. To simply consider them as new age voters will be a big mistake. They are the new age power.

It's so hard to look at someone doing a triple cork when you're 7 years old, and them saying, 'I want to go do that.' It's not really relatable at all. So, if I can somehow make it so kids want to get into snowboarding, that's special.

Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.

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

For the last 20 years, political parties have had a one-way relationship with youth - of exploiting them for political gains and denying them their dues.

Young people - motivating them in any election is hard to do.

What is needed now are increased efforts to promote youth participation and commitment; more services aimed at youth; more parental involvement; more education and information, using schools and other sites; more protection for girls, orphaned children and young women;and more partnerships with people with HIV and AIDS.

Young people are this country [America], and we need to speak out.

Our nation is filled with tremendous energy of the youth. Whatever future we desire of, we must keep the youth at the centre. If we do this, we can surge ahead at an unmatchable pace!

I don't have a problem participating with the youth because the youth are our future.

Making ski racing fun and engaging for kids and families is an exciting opportunity and a real passion of mine.

It is my deepest conviction that the children should be seen and heard as our most treasured assets.

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth - that means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.

I was turning actually 15 at the Olympics in '76... I don't think that one year makes a huge difference.

I think people admire us for dedicating our lives to be professional athletes. But we need more people to come and watch club games; we need to encourage girls to play football from an early age.

The social rights of children must be recognized so that a world suited to their needs may be constructed for them. The greatest crime that society commits is that of wasting the money which it should use for children on things that will destroy them and society itself as well.

Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam.