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" I would hope that government officials have a healthy respect for the complexity of the gang problem. They should never lose sight of the fact that there are human beings involved. There is no single solution. "

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" 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. "

Greg Boyle

Life

Two

My Life

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm not opposed to success. "

Greg Boyle

Success

Opposed

" Delegations from all over the world visit Homeboy Industries and scratch their heads as we tell them of our difficulty in placing our people in jobs after their time with us. Americans' seeming refusal to believe in a person's ability to redeem himself strikes these folks as foreign indeed. "

" 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. "

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

Greg Boyle

Vows

Take

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far. "

Greg Boyle

Disruption

Difficult

" The draconian spirit that seeks to enhance penalties and to lower the age at which juveniles will be tries as adults, is part of the 'whole cloth' of three strikes. Our failure to address the depair of our inner-city youth is only delayed by our over-confidence in a stance that is 'tougher than thou.' "

" We lose our right to be surprised that California has the highest recidivism rate in the country if we refuse to hire folks who have taken responsibility for their crimes and have done their time. "

" The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is. "

" We need a pope to usher in a new era of inclusion, the end of a sinful clericalism, and a strong sense of duty to those on society's margins. The 1 billion faithful long for a leader who is fearless and driven - not by terror but by love. "

" I'm not always optimistic, but I am hopeful. "

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

" Richard Rohr is a theologian that I read. "

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

Greg Boyle

Years

Kinda

" God seems to be an unwilling participant in our efforts to pigeonhole Him. "

" As much as I dislike the suggestion of single solutions to complex problems, jobs are as close as we will get to a single, effective answer to the enormous problem of gangs. "

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

" Even gang members imagine a future that doesn't include gangs. "

" 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. "

" Young people can change and grow. Every parent knows that. "

" Metro police can't infuse hope into those for whom hope is foreign. The algorithm does not exist that can heal the traumatized. Data-driven predictions won't result in the delivery of mental health services. "

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