After School Programs Quotes

• After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.

  Tony Campolo

  School, Government, Elderly

  "Will Faith-Based Programs Go Sour on Obama?" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2009.

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• In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Strong, School, Kids

  "Lupe Fiasco on Freedom". Interview with Lisa Bonner, www.ebony.com. June 28, 2012.

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• I did theater as a kid, more of an after-school program. But every night I would put on a movie and fall asleep to it.

  Scoot McNairy

  Fall, School, Kids

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• In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there is not patience for the long. Slow rebuilding process: implementing after school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas

  Dan Hill

  Jobs, School, Long

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• I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that's state of the art?

  John F. Kerry

  Art, School, Mean

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• I always did workshops. I would be at theater camp, doing shows, or after-school programs.

  Ansel Elgort

  School, Would Be, Program

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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