I really like this #quote about trusting younger people even when you think they're off track. Voltairine de Cleyre was 41, and a veteran organizer, when she wrote:
"Progress has to do with all mankind, not alone with the calm, the wise, and the patient. There is youth in the world, and youth is generally neither calm nor patient; it does not like to sit in the rear rows and listen to mature considerations rendered in the tone of a stock-market quotation concerning questions that are burning up its heart ….
"There is feeling in the world, and a very great quantity of it; and those who do the suffering and the sympathizing may be expected to say and to do many things not within the limits of logic."
Voltairine de Cleyre, American anarchist and feminist, 1907
#genz #youth #activism #quotes #Anarchism #genalpha #ushistory