Before Dreams Disappear: Preventing Youth Violence : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs and Alcoholism of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, on Examining Certain Provisions Establishing Programs to Prevent Youth Violence as Contained in the Proposed Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, May 17, 1994

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Page 66 - The way in which we can make the greatest progress toward reducing violence in America is by taking the actions necessary to improve the conditions of family and community life for all who live in our cities, and especially for the poor who are concentrated in the ghetto slums.
Page 40 - I do have a statement I would like to make a part of the record.
Page 18 - any nation that expects to be ignorant and free. . .expects what never was and never will be...
Page 26 - It was a case sometimes where the right hand did not know what the left hand was doing.
Page 29 - Justice, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Labor...
Page 40 - ... and I do not know where we are going to get the money, if we keep on spending it lavishly and raising it in a costly way.
Page 66 - Necessary as measures of control are, they are only a part of the answer. They do not cure the basic causes of violence. Violence is like a fever in the body politic: it is but the symptom of some more basic pathology which must be cured before the fever will disappear.
Page 66 - APPROXIMATELY 3 MILLION THEFTS AND VIOLENT CRIMES OCCUR ON OR NEAR SCHOOL CAMPUSES EVERY YEAR.
Page 9 - Mr. McKernan, immediately following your prepared statement I am going to ask unanimous consent to place in the record the report of the Department on S. 627, dated April 22, 1963, and signed by Assistant Secretary of the Interior Briggs, and the table which prompted Senator Prouty's questions, entitled "Calculated Apportionment of Funds Under the "Commercial Fisheries Resource and Development Act of 1963.
Page 66 - DC., 31 percent had witnessed shootings, and 39 percent had seen dead bodies • Many inner-city residents fear leaving their homes after dark or letting their children play or sleep near windows. Forty percent of low-income urban parents worry "a lot" that their children will be shot, compared with 10 percent of all parents.

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