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" The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them. "
Greg Boyle
Simply
Erase
Margins
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" I feel called to be faithful. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" Homeboy Bakery is an alternative to kids who have found themselves, regrettably, in gangs and want to redirect their lives. "
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" I think that any program that's born from below rather than on high is going to survive. "
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" Dorothy Day, Cesar Chavez - these are people whose thoughts are so important. "
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" 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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" We don't need a specialized gang unit. We need patrol officers who specialize in knowing their community. "
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" 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. "
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" Delegations from all over the world visit Homeboy Industries and scratch their heads as we tell them of our difficulty in placing our people in jobs after their time with us. Americans' seeming refusal to believe in a person's ability to redeem himself strikes these folks as foreign indeed. "
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" 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. "
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Will
Problem
" People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem. "
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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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Sky
Die
" 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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Wrong
Out
" 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. "
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True
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" You are so much more than the worst thing you've ever done. "
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Worst
You
" I do believe in lessons learned. I have learned that you work with gang members and not with gangs; otherwise, you enforce the cohesion of gangs and supply them oxygen. "
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" When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can't hold it. The best we can do is find the moments that rhyme with this expansive heart of God. "
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Find
Best
" 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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Life
Two
My Life
" 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. "
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You
Succeed
" 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. "
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" I think not everything that works helps, and not everything that helps works. "
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" God seems to be an unwilling participant in our efforts to pigeonhole Him. "
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" Young people can change and grow. Every parent knows that. "
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