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The only encouragement I can give to young people, and which I regularly give them, is this: “Always stand up for the things you believe in. You will lose, as I did, all the battles. You can only win one: the one that is hired every morning in front of the mirror. If you can look at it without blushing, be content.
– Indro Montanelli
They are always those criticized, judged and pointed out, our children, the young people. Those that they have the right and the duty to believe that the world is theirs, because it really is. They are the ones who must fight and lose all battles if necessary. They are our future, and everyone else’s, even if we forget it too often.
Because from the top of our wisdom and experience we look at them with a critical eye wandering around aimlessly, making mistakes, persevering, forgetting that we too were young. And that all we needed was someone to believe in us. Like us today, we must believe in them, in our children, in today’s young people.
And that’s why the World Day dedicated to the skills of young people. The World Youth Skills Day, wanted by the United Nations in 2014, has the goal of celebrate the boys and all the potential that belongs to it. Because they must be encouraged, encouraged and stimulated, and to do so it is necessary to guarantee them adequate opportunities.
The World Day dedicated to the capacities of young people, which falls every 15 July, is a perfect time to stop and think about young people, to believe in them, today more than ever. Because they are the ones who pay the price of an unprecedented world crisis, of a social system that does not reward our children – such precious resources for our country – but hinders them, demeans them and forgets them.
Here, then, is that the day established by the United Nations must become a moment of reflection for all of us on the real abilities of today’s kids. Because it is with them only that we can wish for a better society, inclusive and respectful.
Therefore we believe in young people and let’s do it for real. Let’s take example from Sandro Pertini who addressed himself to young people with love and simplicity, as a father does with his children. Because he knew that the future was in their hands, that in that speech for the start of the new school year (September 16, 1983) he addresses them “as citizens, who they are in all respects and who have the right to be treated “.
And who again, in the year-end speech of December 31, 1983, addresses young people to invite them to fight: “You fight with the passion with which I fought and still fight today, despite the years, for your ideas and for these principles, but I would like you to keep in mind a warning from a French thinker I tell my opponent, I fight your idea which is contrary to mine, but I am ready to fight even at the cost of my life so that you, your idea, can always express freely.
You young people – continues the President –you are the future ruling class of our country. You must therefore prepare yourselves to perform this most noble task worthily.
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