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" Dorothy Day, Cesar Chavez - these are people whose thoughts are so important. "

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" The arms of God reach to embrace, and somehow you feel yourself just outside God's fingertips. "

" Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society. "

" I think that any program that's born from below rather than on high is going to survive. "

" Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the conditions that force their migration. "

" We are less than honest and commit a grave error if we insist that what happened to Rodney G. King was isolated and an exceptional case. The poor know better. "

" You don't really get Jesus saying very often there'll be pie in the sky when you die. He's really talking about now and today, and it's supposed to be like that. You're supposed to delight in what's right in front of you. "

" We can't just settle for the low bar of pope as media-savvy, canny Curia manager. "

" People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem. "

" God can get tiny if we're not careful. "

" The power of community policing is in the relationship. This can happen only if an officer sticks around for a while. "

" The church needs a pope who can call us to conversion and lead us to take seriously what Jesus did. "

" Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story. "

" The highest religious and spiritual ideals of any faith would invite us to a compassion for all lives destroyed by the violence that plagues us. "

" My job isn't to fix or rescue or to save. It's to accompany, see people, listen to them. "

" I kinda don't do guilt. I gave it up for Lent years ago. "

" God is compassion. "

" The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives. "

" Gangs are born of a lethal absence of hope, and hope has an address: 130 W. Bruno St. in Los Angeles, CA 90012. "

" At its best, an injunction creates a kind of vigilant heat that moves kids toward the light. "

" The powers, conditions, and desires that propel Mexicans and Central Americans into this country are so fundamental, so vast, that no action, legislative or other-wise, can discourage this flight. "

" I founded Homeboy Industries in 1988 after I buried my first young person killed in our streets because of gang violence. "

" We need not wait for further, well-placed home video cameras to see that low-intensity warfare is being waged against low-income minorities. We need only listen to the voices of the poor; they can testify that they are dehumanized, disparaged, and despised by the police. "

" The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim and victimizer in its compassionate heart. "

" Jesus did not only serve the needs of the people, but truly hoped that the people and Jesus would be one. "

" People have started to see that 'smart on crime' rather than 'tough on crime' makes sense. "

" The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them. "

" The desire of God's heart is immeasurably larger than our imaginations can conjure. "

" You prevent kids from joining gangs by offering after-school programs, sports, mentoring, and positive engagement with adults. You intervene with gang members by offering alternatives and employment to help redirect their lives. You deal with areas of high gang crime activity with real community policing. We know what works. "

" I do believe in lessons learned. I have learned that you work with gang members and not with gangs; otherwise, you enforce the cohesion of gangs and supply them oxygen. "

" You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear. "