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" I know now that gang warfare is not the Middle East or Northern Ireland. There is violence in gang violence, but there is no conflict. It is not 'about something.' It is the language of the despondent and traumatized. "

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" If the Los Angeles Police Department had enough officers, it could focus on one part of the community and stay there long enough to know and respect the people the officers are called on to protect and serve. "

Greg Boyle

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Respect

Community

" If you are paying attention, then the day is going to be pretty joyful, and a lot of delight will fill it. "

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

" All politics are local, and so in church. "

" I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness. "

" Most citizens viewing the tape of Rodney G. King being beaten by police officers were stunned and uncomprehending. Most citizens, that is, but the urban poor. "

" We need a pope to oversee not simply a modernization of the church but its total transformation. "

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

" Children find themselves adrift not because the informational signposts are illegible, but because there is no one around to guide and accompany them. "

" I don't save people. God saves people. I can point them in the right direction. I can say, 'There's that door. I think if you walked through it, you'd be happier than you are.' "

" 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. "

" I spent the summers of 1984 and 1985 as an associate pastor at Dolores Mission Church, the poorest parish in the Los Angeles archdiocese. In 1986, I became pastor of the church. "

" We are among the handful of countries that has difficulty distinguishing juveniles from adults where crime is concerned. We are convinced that if a child commits an adult crime, that kid is magically transformed into an adult. Consequently, we try juveniles as adults. "

" Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to? "

" 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. "

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

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

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

Greg Boyle

Lead

Call

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

" I know two L.A.s. Half my life was around the house my folks had for 46 years at 3rd and Norton. The other half was in Boyle Heights on the Eastside, working with gang members. "

" Does God feel like that same-sex marriage could happen? I don't think anybody who has a connection to God and God's understanding and depth of compassion who's gonna say 'no.' "

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

" I didn't take my vows to the LAPD. "

Greg Boyle

Vows

Take

" What is ultimately compelling for our children in helping them conjure images of a future for themselves is our willingness to walk with them as they do it. "

" You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it. "

" Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with the 'demonized' so that the demonizing will stop; it stands with the 'disposable' so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away. "

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

" Showing up in the lives of children is everything. "

Greg Boyle

Everything

Showing Up

" You are exactly what God had in mind when he made you. "

" The Church should say, 'I'm frightened that women will be ordained;' that's honest, say that. But don't say, 'It's a grave sin,' because that's nonsense. "