Few will have the greatness to bend history; but each of us can work to change a small portion of the events, and in the total of all these acts will be written the history of this generation.
The youthfulness I speak of is 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 love of ease.
Parties are instruments of government. They are the vehicle by which the people achieve their aims. What good are elections, if the party they elect disintegrates when the time comes to fulfill campaign promises?
A revolution is coming—a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough—But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.
I cannot stand aside from the contest that will decide our nation’s future and our children’s future.
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
I think we here in this country, with the unselfish state that exists in the United States of America, I think we can do better here also.
For Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Young Defender Benjie Aquino, improving human rights in the Philippines meant providing activists with paralegal training. What he viewed as “legal empowerment”, this training aimed to provide the necessary tools and protections for his fellow activists to continue work without retribution from the government. During the pandemic, the Philippine…
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Young Defender Christian Yohannes is a 20-year-old George Washington University junior, from Leesburg, Virginia and a product of Loudoun County Public Schools. He is the son of Ethiopian immigrants, a community activist, a former White House Intern in the Biden-Harris Administration, and the youngest Second Vice-President in Loudoun County’s NAACP…
Tags Share Written by Ikechukwu Uzoma After the abysmal management of the 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released data for the polls. Among the data points, the low voter turnout figure is generating a lot of conversation. With just 27 per cent, it is the lowest voter…
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