This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. It is a revolutionary world we live in, and thus, as I have said in Latin America and Asia, in Europe and in the United States, it is young people who must take the lead. Thus you, and your young compatriots everywhere, have had thrust upon you a greater burden of responsibility than any generation that has ever lived. | |
— Robert F. Kennedy | |
National Union of South African Students “Day of Affirmation” Speech | |
June 6th, 1966 | |
University of Cape Town, South Africa | |
[Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday everyone! The “Dream” endures… You can read RFK’s full speech here. — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | All A Game |
2014 | Two Thoughts |
2013 | RIP – Dear Abby |
Half-Life Problems | |
2012 | To The Soul… |
2011 | Reverted!! |
Posts Tagged ‘On Youth’
Still A Burden
Posted in Leadership, Poetry, Quotes, tagged Day of Affirmation, Leadership, Martin Luther King Jr, National Union Of South African Students, NUSAS, On Youth, Poetry, Quotes, Robert F. Kennedy, South Africa, The Burden For Youth, University of Cape Town on January 18, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Begin Today
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged C.S. Lewis, On Fairy Tales, On Youth, Philosophy, Quotes on November 4, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. | |
― C.S. Lewis | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | Look Again (At Life’s Illusions) |
2013 | None Knows |
2012 | Yet |
2011 | No End In Sight |
2010 | Back At It… |
Worth Anything?
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged On Life, On Youth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Philosophy, Quotes on July 27, 2014| Leave a Comment »
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. | |
— Percy Bysshe Shelley | |
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On This Day In: | |
2013 | Bruises Before Bed (Or Why You Didn’t Answer) |
Revealed Riches | |
2012 | Extra Gears |
2011 | Say What? |
2010 | Hello Frogs… |
A Very Long Time…
Posted in Other Blogs, Philosophy, Poetry, Quotes, tagged http://themirrorobscura.com/, On Becoming Young, On Youth, Other Blogs, Philosophy, Poems, Poetry, Quotes, The Mirror Obscura on October 31, 2013| 3 Comments »
Fragments: Growing | |
When we are children we dream | |
Of growing up, | |
Be an adult doing adult things. | |
We never understand | |
That it takes a very long time | |
To become young. | |
— From a blog I follow: “The Mirror Obscura” located at: http://themirrorobscura.com/ | |
The original post was: http://themirrorobscura.com/2013/10/11/fragments-growing/ | |
[You HAVE to click through to the original post to see the terrific picture which accompanies this poem. Well, worth checking out! — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2012 | Raise And Support |
2011 | Naturally |
2010 | A Quick Sunday Morning Read |
Giants Win Game 4 In Shutout 4 to 0!!! |
I Resemble That Remark!
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Blog Anniversary, Happy 4th Anniversary, On Youth, Philosophy, Quotes, Sydney J. Harris on July 29, 2013| 14 Comments »
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. | |
— Sydney J. Harris | |
[For those of you who are unaware – and I suspect most of you are – today marks the 4th anniversary of my blog! Thanks for stopping by. Come again soon, our best days are still ahead… — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2012 | Happy 3rd Anniversary |
2011 | Is America Safe Tonight? |
2009 | Hello world! (See how it all began…) |