"Our youth are not failing the system; the system is failing our youth. Ironically, the very youth who are being treated the worst are the young people who are going to lead us out of this nightmare."

-- Rachel Jackson

#People Quotes #Youth Quotes #Nightmare Quotes

“Keep your head up, keep your heart strong.”
“When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me â€” yet â€” the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.”
“An Englishman will take you into a large room, beautifully proportioned, and will point out to you that it is white- all over white- and somebody will say what exquisite taste. You know in your own mind, in your own soul, that it is not taste at all˘that is the want of taste˘that is mere evasion. English music is white and evades everything.”

Source : Edward Elgar, Percy Marshall Young (1968). “A future for English music, and other lectures”
“It does no service to the cause of racial equality for white people to content themselves with judging themselves to be nonracist. Few people outside the clan or skinhead movements own up to all-out racism these days. White people must take the extra step. They must become anti-racist.”
“As long as I have people's attention, I can't stop. You can't put the public on hold, because they might not be there when you get back. I have a pathological fear of stopping.”
“Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.”

Source : Joanne Harris (2012). “Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (Chocolat 3)”, p.197, Random House
“I have one thing in my mind. How can I get people to start taking care of themselves? That's all I think about.”
“Don't you understand anything about commitment, about being a pro, about sticking with what you say you wanna be? You don't just say it when you feel good. You don't just say it when you're not tired. You don't do it just when it's not sunny. You do it every day of your life. You do it when it hurts to do it, when it's the last thing in the world you wanna' do, when there are a million reasons not to do it. You do it because you're a professional.”

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