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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

Long

Respect

Community

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" For over twenty years, Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with those on the margins and those whose burdens are more than they can bear; it stands with the poor and the powerless, with the easily-despised and the readily-left out. "

" 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. "

" Anyone who knows gangs knows that lawmakers cannot conceive of a law that would lead a hard-core gang member to 'think twice.' "

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

" You are so much more than the worst thing you've ever done. "

" There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us. "

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Them

Only

" 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. "

" Relapse happens, especially when you're dealing with folks who are frankly the least likely to succeed based on their own pasts and difficulties. We can work with the most likely to succeed. I'm not interested in that. "

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

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

Greg Boyle

Vows

Take

" I think not everything that works helps, and not everything that helps works. "

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

" I've never met an evil person ever. "

" 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. "

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

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Disruption

Difficult

" 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. "

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

Greg Boyle

Everything

Showing Up

" So complex are all the ingredients that cause gang membership that it seems virtually impossible to isolate one solution that can address them all and thereby manufacture a hope for the future upon which these kids can rely. "

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

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

" The truth is this: Brutalized, victimized children invariably will brutalize and victimize when they grow up. Is our only response to this the certain promise that we will penalize them when they do? Or will we commit to keeping our children safe from brutality and victimization? "