United Nations Youth Australia
UN Youth Australia (formerly United Nations Youth Association of Australia, UNYA) is one of Australia's largest youth organisations, and is part of the global network of United Nations Youth Associations. UN Youth is an independent arm of the United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA). UN Youth is a not-for-profit community organisation run entirely by youth volunteers (aged 24 and under).
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“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
—United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.
“... when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everyone will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses were always hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon to-day has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)
“They make other nations seem pale and flighty,
But they do think England is God almighty,
And you must remind them now and then
That other countries breed other men.”
—Alice Duer Miller (1874–1942)
““I don’t suppose there’s a man going, as possesses the fondness for youth that I do. There’s youth to the amount of eight hundred pound a-year, at Dotheboys Hall at this present time. I’d take sixteen hundred pound worth, if I could get ‘em, and be as fond of every individual twenty pound among ‘em as nothing should equal it!””
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)