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" I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine. "
Greg Boyle
Mistaken
Priest
Been
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" All politics are local, and so in church. "
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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. "
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" Dorothy Day, Cesar Chavez - these are people whose thoughts are so important. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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Time
Responsibility
Done
" 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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King
Poor
" God can get tiny if we're not careful. "
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Tiny
Careful
Get
" 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
" 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. "
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Mental Health
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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. "
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Take
I Can
Laugh
" 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. "
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Political
Torture
Push
" 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 founded Homeboy Industries in 1988 after I buried my first young person killed in our streets because of gang violence. "
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Young
Streets
Person
" The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is. "
Greg Boyle
You
Important
Where
" 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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Community
Happen
Power
" The idea that any law enforcement agency or person would ever know these gang members better than Homeboy Industries is impossible. "
Greg Boyle
Law
Know
Impossible
" Anyone who knows gangs knows that lawmakers cannot conceive of a law that would lead a hard-core gang member to 'think twice.' "
Greg Boyle
Cannot
Law
Gang
" 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. "
Greg Boyle
Day
Stop
Will
" We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang. "
Greg Boyle
Ought
Gang
Demonize
" 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
Go
Difficult
" Even gang members imagine a future that doesn't include gangs. "
Greg Boyle
Gangs
Even
Future
" 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. "
Greg Boyle
Relationship
People
Key
" 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. "
Greg Boyle
Gang
Hope
Future
" Gang members aren't frightened into acceptable behavior by increased penalties, enhanced punishments, and the promise of new detention facilities. "
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Facilities
Promise
New
" No kid is seeking anything when he joins a gang; he's always fleeing something. He's not being pulled; he's being pushed by the circumstances in which he finds himself. "
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Always
He
Kid
" Richard Rohr is a theologian that I read. "
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Richard
Theologian
Read
" If you are paying attention, then the day is going to be pretty joyful, and a lot of delight will fill it. "
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Going
You
Will
" I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang. "
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Never
Person
Gang
" The mark of our society as civilized will come when we embrace confidence in the power of redemption. "
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Society
Power
Confidence
" 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. "
Greg Boyle
Years
Stand
Bear