We believe if we can continue to provide some alternative to violence for these students, ... then they will be able to get back to work and they might, therefore, not be lured back to fighting.

A significant number of those who participated in the war effort were young people. People who are returned maybe started at 9 years old and are now 25 years old, people who have never seen, literally, the classroom, and therefore have no skills.

Education is a vaccine for violence.

School violence is a serious problem that endangers students, interferes with learning and harms our communities, ... My legislation will help make schools safer for students throughout the United States.

Hate language in the school hallways is huge. These students are too often the target of name-calling, violence and worse.

Violent people rarely understand anything other than violence, perpetuating a circle of violence seldom broken by anything other than nonviolent means.