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" There is no such thing as a bad cop, only disturbing and dominant cop thinking that will invariably lead to excessive force and tragic outcomes. "

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" I don't save people. God saves people. I can point them in the right direction. I can say, 'There's that door. I think if you walked through it, you'd be happier than you are.' "

" 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. "

" I think that any program that's born from below rather than on high is going to survive. "

" We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang. "

" We can't just settle for the low bar of pope as media-savvy, canny Curia manager. "

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

" I would hope that government officials have a healthy respect for the complexity of the gang problem. They should never lose sight of the fact that there are human beings involved. There is no single solution. "

" I'm not opposed to success. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I feel called to be faithful. "

" Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I don't believe in mistakes. Everything belongs, and, as the homies say, 'It's all good.' "

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

" The draconian spirit that seeks to enhance penalties and to lower the age at which juveniles will be tries as adults, is part of the 'whole cloth' of three strikes. Our failure to address the depair of our inner-city youth is only delayed by our over-confidence in a stance that is 'tougher than thou.' "

" Our best selves tell us that 'there but for the grace of God... ' and that, in the end, there is no distance, really, between us and them. It is just us. Our best and noble hope is to imitate the God we believe in. The God who has abundant room in God's grief and heart for us all. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 are among the handful of countries that has difficulty distinguishing juveniles from adults where crime is concerned. We are convinced that if a child commits an adult crime, that kid is magically transformed into an adult. Consequently, we try juveniles as adults. "

" 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. "

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

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