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I believe that children our our future.
Most people think Whitney Houston penned the lyrics to the timeless hit “The Greatest Love of All,” or that Randy Watson was the genius behind the words when he led the wildly-famous soul band “Sexual Chocolate.” Actually, the song was originally recorded by George Benson in 1977 for the Muhammed Ali film, The Greatest.

Well, as I watched Sexual Chocolate perform their classic gig the other day, and listened to the simple-yet-oh-so-powerful opening line to that song, I was reminded of a video that I had seen a few months ago. The video: a 12 year-old girl chastising a group of United Nations delegates and government representatives from around the world. She took the time to remind them in a very definitive tone why they were there and what their responsibilities were.

Sometimes, young people say or think things that we adults only WISH we had the wisdom to have thought, and this was one of those moments.

Listen to the speech of young Severn Suzuki at the United Nations Earth Summit in 1992.

ALL of her words still ring true today.