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A Pakistani Muslim teaching Jewish Holocaust history to young Igbo children.

As a young middle-class Nigerian activist, I launched myself along with a whole generation of us into the campaign to stop the government.

But ever since I was a young girl, I was always fascinated with how the world worked exactly how it did.

Imagine the teenage farm girl who makes less than a dollar an hour stitching your running shoes, or the young Chinese man who jumps off a rooftop after working overtime assembling your iPad.

All of these speakers, by the way, are young women, 18 or 19 years old.

When I asked Lu Qingmin, the young woman I got to know best, what exactly she did on the factory floor, she said something to me in Chinese that sounded like "qiu xi."

In a recent email to me, she explained, "A person should have some ambition while she is young so that in old age she can look back on her life and feel that it was not lived to no purpose."

Instead, I found young women who were smart and funny and brave and generous.

I keep it with me to remind me of the ties that tie me to the young women I wrote about, ties that are not economic but personal in nature, measured not in money but in memories.

I don't have young children.

It might surprise some of you here, as it did me, when I discovered that suicide is at the top of the list of the leading causes of death in young people in all countries in the world, including the poorest countries of the world.

But perhaps most heartbreaking of all are the stories of the abuse of even the most basic human rights, such as the young woman shown in this image here that are played out every day, sadly, even in the very institutions that were built to care for people with mental illnesses, the mental hospitals.

We've heard talk here at TED about people biohacking and hacking their plants with Arduino, and Mozilla is doing work around the world in getting young people to build websites and make videos.

When we start by teaching young people that we live, not in a passive society, a read-only society, but in a writable society, where we have the power to change our communities, to change our institutions, that's when we begin to really put ourselves on the pathway towards this open government innovation, towards this open government movement, towards this open government revolution.

You know, bike lanes are mostly used by young guys in stretchy pants.

Mayor Menino in Boston says lack of affordable housing for young people is one of the biggest problems the city faces.

But I was moved almost to tears because I understood what was happening to this young man.

These young future leaders are beginning to understand the real business of leadership, the real privilege of leadership, which is after all to serve humanity.

I was too young, unmarried, I had no children, didn't really know Africa, and besides, my French was pitiful.

He surrounded himself with an entourage of young, unknown scholars like Martin Buber and Shai Agnon and Franz Kafka, and he paid each one of them a monthly salary so that they could write in peace.

And all this is something that a very young child can pick up using such mobile apps.

And I was very young then.

As a young engineering student, I remember going to a demonstration where they basically, the demonstrator did something quite intriguing.

You know, there's nothing heroic about killing a young kid.

There's a very young, attractive lady over here, and she has something which I think's the worst form of psychological, physical injury I've ever seen out of a suicide bombing: It's human shrapnel.

For me, it's really crucial to get to these young, vulnerable men and women.

She was one of the young people who was involved in this study, and she's now one of the youngest published scientists in the world.

But there is a saying in my culture that if a bud leaves a tree without saying something, that bud is a young one.

It was a virtual prison for young people.

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