Us-Young People CAN Change the World
There is nothing that corrodes the morale, strength, and purpose of a generation more than futility and believing that you cannot do anything to change the environment in which you live. Young people have been changing the world for a long time-and still are! Young people are perhaps the most powerful people on the earth right now and forever. We are only as good and as strong as we choose to be. A man who was 32 wrote most of the Constitution, the document which guides our government on how to govern in the United States. That 32-year-old man was Thomas Jefferson. He was only 32 years of age when he wrote: " We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." And Alexander Hamilton was only 21 years old when he became a Founding Father of the United States of America. He was 34 when he founded t...