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

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" I wouldn't trade my life for anybody's. "

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

" God is compassion. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim and victimizer in its compassionate heart. "

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

" We need a pope to oversee not simply a modernization of the church but its total transformation. "

" Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to? "

" If you are paying attention, then the day is going to be pretty joyful, and a lot of delight will fill it. "

" I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang. "

" Richard Rohr is a theologian that I read. "

" You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it. "

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

" You are exactly what God had in mind when he made you. "

" 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. "

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

" The employer is not going to choose the gang member who's just been released from prison: they're going to choose the person with the skills. "

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

" 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. "

" Businesses have come and gone at Homeboy Industries. We have had starts and stops, but anything worth doing is worth failing at. We started Homeboy Plumbing. That didn't go so well. Who knew? People didn't want gang members in their homes. I just didn't see that coming. "

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

" Dorothy Day, Cesar Chavez - these are people whose thoughts are so important. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" The power of community policing is in the relationship. This can happen only if an officer sticks around for a while. "