Venstresocialisternes Ungdom (Youth of the Left Socialists) was the youth wing of the Danish political party Venstresocialisterne (Left Socialists). VSU was founded at a conference February 4-5 1984.
VSU was dissolved in 1992. Members of VSU were active in the establishment of the new youth organization REBEL the very same year.
Famous quotes containing the words youth of, youth, left and/or socialists:
“We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“Not the less does nature continue to fill the heart of youth with suggestions of his enthusiasm, and there are now men,—if indeed I can speak in the plural number,—more exactly, I will say, I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible, that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest of sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I’ve always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night.”
—Nelson Gidding (b. 1919)
“Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?”
—Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972)