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" 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. "
Greg Boyle
Fall
Brain
Prey
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" 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. "
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" The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives. "
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" I don't believe in mistakes. Everything belongs, and, as the homies say, 'It's all good.' "
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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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" I've never met an evil person ever. "
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" We are less than honest and commit a grave error if we insist that what happened to Rodney G. King was isolated and an exceptional case. The poor know better. "
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" I know now that gang warfare is not the Middle East or Northern Ireland. There is violence in gang violence, but there is no conflict. It is not 'about something.' It is the language of the despondent and traumatized. "
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" Me wanting a gang member to have a different life would never be the same as that gang member wanting to have one. "
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" 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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" As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized. "
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" You are so much more than the worst thing you've ever done. "
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You
" Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that's what happens at Homeboy Industries. "
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Gang
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" I love movies. "
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I Love
Love
" 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
" The task of dealing comprehensively with gangs belongs to the city, not to law enforcement. "
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Law
Task
" Like the suffering child, gang members act out of their despair, and their actions are all the more alarming now for our not having heeded their cry long ago. The shortsighted neglect that keeps us locked up in our outrage has also kept us from viable solutions. "
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" 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. "
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" My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that's the church. That's the people of God. "
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Church
Celebrate
" 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? "
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" I think not everything that works helps, and not everything that helps works. "
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Works
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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. "
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Respect
Community
" You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it. "
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" The idea that any law enforcement agency or person would ever know these gang members better than Homeboy Industries is impossible. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" We need a pope to oversee not simply a modernization of the church but its total transformation. "
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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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" Anyone who knows gangs knows that lawmakers cannot conceive of a law that would lead a hard-core gang member to 'think twice.' "
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Law
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