#generation

I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#actually #children #generation #give #going

I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#bills #certain #fiscally #frankly #future

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#anything #century #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#books #experiences #followed #generation #greatest

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste? ↗

— David R. Brower

#consumption #convenience #doubling #energy #energy consumption

Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations. ↗

— David R. Brower

#garbage #generations #i #i think #immediate

The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#basic #because #collapses #culture #embraces

I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#french #generation #heard #i #reacting

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#after #attempt #enough #generation #impossible

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. ↗

— Haim Ginott

#anything #generation #often #parents #talk