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

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" Homeboy Bakery is an alternative to kids who have found themselves, regrettably, in gangs and want to redirect their lives. "

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

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

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

" I kinda don't do guilt. I gave it up for Lent years ago. "

" Richard Rohr is a theologian that I read. "

" 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. "

" The task of dealing comprehensively with gangs belongs to the city, not to law enforcement. "

Law Enforcement

" 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.' "

" The highest religious and spiritual ideals of any faith would invite us to a compassion for all lives destroyed by the violence that plagues us. "

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

" As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The idea that any law enforcement agency or person would ever know these gang members better than Homeboy Industries is impossible. "

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

" 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. "

" I think not everything that works helps, and not everything that helps works. "

" 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. "

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