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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Children find themselves adrift not because the informational signposts are illegible, but because there is no one around to guide and accompany them. "

" I'm not opposed to success. "

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

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

" The arms of God reach to embrace, and somehow you feel yourself just outside God's fingertips. "

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

" 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? "

" I work with gang members, and I feel a kind of affinity and gift, even. But who would've thunk it, you know? I mean, I didn't anticipate it. "

" 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. "

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

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

" What do we know to be true about gang violence? We know we will fail if we fixate on the symptoms and not address what undergirds it. "

" Even gang members imagine a future that doesn't include gangs. "

" 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.' "

" All politics are local, and so in church. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" God is compassion. "