American Children Quotes

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Gloria Steinem

Mother, Father, Children

I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.
Jeff Bridges

Children, Poor, American

Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of overweight children ages 5 to 10 already have at least one risk factor for heart disease? We are all to blame for this - parents, schools, kids - all of us.
Alison Sweeney

Heart, Children, Parents

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.
Eric Alterman

Children, Living, Poverty

I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
Gary Bauer

Children, Mean, American

African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
Chaka Fattah

Time, Experience, Children

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.
Bobby Scott

Children, Same, Study

Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.
Paul Weyrich

Children, American, Lives

These same people who accuse Planned Parenthood of 'targeting' African-American children, they care about you only while you're in the womb. The minute you crown, you're on your own.
Gwen Moore

Care, Children, Same

We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.
LeVar Burton

Life, Politics, Health

My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.
Tayari Jones

Children, Leaving, Dead

An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.
William Labov

Home, Learning, Strong

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