All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don't invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don't invest in them, we lose.
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As we say at Year Up all the time, investing in our young people is not just a matter of economic justice. It's good business sense.
Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it's important to invest in them and show them another way - show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can't do. Because by investing in youth, we're investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America.
If we invest in the American people, the American people always bring this Nation a good return.
In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother's Keeper, I'm personally committed to changing both perception and reality.
If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.
We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.
We're all in this together, and we all have to make an investment in our most precious possession and in the foundation of our future: our young people.
All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.
We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.
If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.
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