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" I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can. "
Greg Boyle
Take
I Can
Laugh
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" 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. "
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" Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that's what happens at Homeboy Industries. "
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" My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that's the church. That's the people of God. "
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" I'm not going to be here forever. I don't plan on going anywhere, but I don't know anybody for whom death is an exception. "
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" There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us. "
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" Our best selves tell us that 'there but for the grace of God... ' and that, in the end, there is no distance, really, between us and them. It is just us. Our best and noble hope is to imitate the God we believe in. The God who has abundant room in God's grief and heart for us all. "
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" We need a pope to oversee not simply a modernization of the church but its total transformation. "
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" It has become an accepted tenet that kids will rarely listen to their parents but seldom fail to imitate them. Communicating the message has never been a good substitute for 'showing up' and embodying the message. "
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Parents
Showing Up
" We don't need a specialized gang unit. We need patrol officers who specialize in knowing their community. "
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Who
Knowing
" Gang members aren't frightened into acceptable behavior by increased penalties, enhanced punishments, and the promise of new detention facilities. "
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Promise
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" The power of community policing is in the relationship. This can happen only if an officer sticks around for a while. "
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Happen
Power
" Gangs are born of a lethal absence of hope, and hope has an address: 130 W. Bruno St. in Los Angeles, CA 90012. "
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Absence
Hope
" I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine. "
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Mistaken
Priest
Been
" The desire of God's heart is immeasurably larger than our imaginations can conjure. "
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Than
Desire
" 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. "
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Flight
Vast
" We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease. "
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Know
Just
Crime
" 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. "
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" I don't believe in mistakes. Everything belongs, and, as the homies say, 'It's all good.' "
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Say
Everything
Believe
" I kinda don't do guilt. I gave it up for Lent years ago. "
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Up
Years
Kinda
" The arms of God reach to embrace, and somehow you feel yourself just outside God's fingertips. "
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Feel
Embrace
God
" 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. "
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Relationship
People
Key
" Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to? "
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Ours
Waits
Who
" I wouldn't trade my life for anybody's. "
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Trade
Life
Anybody
" Homeboy Bakery is an alternative to kids who have found themselves, regrettably, in gangs and want to redirect their lives. "
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" What do we know to be true about gang violence? We know we will fail if we fixate on the symptoms and not address what undergirds it. "
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" 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. "
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Work
Believe
Gang
" There is no such thing as a bad cop, only disturbing and dominant cop thinking that will invariably lead to excessive force and tragic outcomes. "
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Only
Thinking
" I love movies. "
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" My job isn't to fix or rescue or to save. It's to accompany, see people, listen to them. "
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Fix
Job
" I founded Homeboy Industries in 1988 after I buried my first young person killed in our streets because of gang violence. "
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Streets
Person