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" 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. "

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" Richard Rohr is a theologian that I read. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The idea that any law enforcement agency or person would ever know these gang members better than Homeboy Industries is impossible. "

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

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

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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" Most employers just aren't willing to look beyond the dumbest or worst thing someone has done. "