#young people

I'm more of a hands-on person. I like working with young people from the standpoint of providing support for the grassroots programs. State, national and Olympic champions begin at a grassroots level. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#champions #grassroots #hands-on #i #level

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#believe #expose #follow #footprint #go

When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration? ↗

— Naomi Klein

#inspiration #just #just do it #message #nike

Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people. ↗

— John Thorn

#before #else #finally #go #grave

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#any #attracting #best-educated #exciting #factor

What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#believe #better #dangerous #ended #ever

I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#artistic #artists #being #could #especially

Educating young people about the harms of drugs is essential. ↗

— John Walters

#educating #essential #harms #people #young

In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is the first illegal drug that they are exposed to. ↗

— John Walters

#been #clear #consistent #exposed #first

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams. ↗

— Lenny Wilkens

#discourage #dreaming #never #people #should