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" Jesus did not only serve the needs of the people, but truly hoped that the people and Jesus would be one. "

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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. "

" God is compassion. "

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

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" The task of dealing comprehensively with gangs belongs to the city, not to law enforcement. "

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" Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime. "

" What is ultimately compelling for our children in helping them conjure images of a future for themselves is our willingness to walk with them as they do it. "

" The business of second chances is everybody's business. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" In my barrio, jobs work and money saves lives. When I have had the funds to place a gang member on a job site and pay his salary, I've seen him stop banging. When, on the rarest of occasions, an employer has offered a job to one of these youth, I've witnessed kids suddenly have a reason to get up in the morning. "

" You prevent kids from joining gangs by offering after-school programs, sports, mentoring, and positive engagement with adults. You intervene with gang members by offering alternatives and employment to help redirect their lives. You deal with areas of high gang crime activity with real community policing. We know what works. "

" 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. "

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

" I founded Homeboy Industries in 1988 after I buried my first young person killed in our streets because of gang violence. "

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

" Kids are different from adults. They are not as developed as far as brain science, controlling impulses, and maturity, and fall prey to all kinds of pressures. "

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

" I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine. "

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

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

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

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

" People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem. "

" 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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