Eleanor Norton Quotes on Government (2 Quotes)

Disintegration of the family is the greatest problem facing the African-American community, ... And there are no simple, easy answers to this. Government has a role, but you have to be careful. How do you get into someone's family and try and save it convince young men that they have responsibilities, young men who often feel they have no future and no hope.

The lawmakers said that progress has been made since then, but that more needs to be done. What a new commission would have to do is more complex than the Kerner Commission, ... It's more complex than passing laws that this House and the Senate passed.