Teenagers and young adults have a history of driving social change.
In New York in 1899 a newsboy named Kid Blink gave a galvanizing speech to his fellow “newsies”:
“Friens and feller workers. Dis is a time which tries de hearts of men. Dis is de time when we’se got to stick together like glue…We know wot we wants and we’ll git it even if we is blind.”
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