
“I think I have this responsibility to my father’s generation, and especially future generations.”
2010-, Ai Weiwei: 'Every day I think, this will be the day I get taken in again...', 2011
Source: THE VALUE OF HUMAN DIGNITY: Brunello Cucinelli’s Vision for a Better World https://gearpatrol.com/2018/12/20/brunello-cucinelli-interview/ John Zientek, Gear Patrol, December 20, 2018
“I think I have this responsibility to my father’s generation, and especially future generations.”
2010-, Ai Weiwei: 'Every day I think, this will be the day I get taken in again...', 2011
“We are responsible for empowering our next generation with values.”
Twitter https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/830562934178840581 (February 11, 2017)
“Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.”
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf, p. 216
In the House of Commons, February 28, 1906 speech South African native races http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1906/feb/28/south-african-native-races#S4V0152P0_19060228_HOC_307
Early career years (1898–1929)
From Nothing Personal, a collaboration with the photographer Richard Avedon (1964). Baldwin's text for the volume can be found " here https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1042&context=cibs".
Context: One must say Yes to life, and embrace it wherever it is found - and it is found in terrible places. … For nothing is fixed, forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
“Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.”
"The Essential Gesture" (12 October 1984)
Truman Library address (2006)
Context: I believe we have a responsibility not only to our contemporaries but also to future generations — a responsibility to preserve resources that belong to them as well as to us, and without which none of us can survive. That means we must do much more, and urgently, to prevent or slow down climate change. Everyday that we do nothing, or too little, imposes higher costs on our children and our children’s children. Of course, it reminds me of an African proverb — the earth is not ours but something we hold in trust for future generations. I hope my generation will be worthy of that trust.
Tommy Robinson: Contempt case referred to attorney general https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45951152 BBC News (23 October 2018)
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From Zoran Djindjic's speech held at Democratic Party's Assembly, 02.02.1995.