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" We don't need a specialized gang unit. We need patrol officers who specialize in knowing their community. "
Greg Boyle
Need
Who
Knowing
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" Young people can change and grow. Every parent knows that. "
Greg Boyle
Parent
People
Young
" I always have a funny story at communion time that underscores that no one is perfect, and that communion is not for perfect people but for hungry people. "
Greg Boyle
Story
People
Funny
" 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. "
Greg Boyle
Community
Positive
Sports
" People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem. "
Greg Boyle
Problem
People
Gang
" You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it. "
Greg Boyle
Gang
Table
Reason
" I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang. "
Greg Boyle
Never
Person
Gang
" 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.' "
Greg Boyle
Will
Failure
Spirit
" Jesus did not only serve the needs of the people, but truly hoped that the people and Jesus would be one. "
Greg Boyle
Needs
Did
Serve
" 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. "
Greg Boyle
Life
Two
My Life
" People have started to see that 'smart on crime' rather than 'tough on crime' makes sense. "
Greg Boyle
People
Tough
Smart
" I didn't take my vows to the LAPD. "
Greg Boyle
Vows
Take
" Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the conditions that force their migration. "
Greg Boyle
Political
Torture
Push
" 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. "
Greg Boyle
Moments
Find
Best
" 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. "
Greg Boyle
World
Wrong
Out
" I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine. "
Greg Boyle
Mistaken
Priest
Been
" 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. "
Greg Boyle
Gang
Hope
Future
" 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. "
Greg Boyle
Single
Will
Problem
" Most citizens viewing the tape of Rodney G. King being beaten by police officers were stunned and uncomprehending. Most citizens, that is, but the urban poor. "
Greg Boyle
Police Officers
King
Poor
" The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them. "
Greg Boyle
Simply
Erase
Margins
" We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease. "
Greg Boyle
Know
Just
Crime
" Anyone who knows gangs knows that lawmakers cannot conceive of a law that would lead a hard-core gang member to 'think twice.' "
Greg Boyle
Cannot
Law
Gang
" The business of second chances is everybody's business. "
Greg Boyle
Business
Second
Everybody
" Me wanting a gang member to have a different life would never be the same as that gang member wanting to have one. "
Greg Boyle
Same
Life
Me
" Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime. "
Greg Boyle
Proactive
Crime
Need
" The Church should say, 'I'm frightened that women will be ordained;' that's honest, say that. But don't say, 'It's a grave sin,' because that's nonsense. "
Greg Boyle
Honest
Church
Say
" We need not wait for further, well-placed home video cameras to see that low-intensity warfare is being waged against low-income minorities. We need only listen to the voices of the poor; they can testify that they are dehumanized, disparaged, and despised by the police. "
Greg Boyle
See
Need
Home
" I'm not always optimistic, but I am hopeful. "
Greg Boyle
Always
I Am
Optimistic
" I'm not opposed to success. "
Greg Boyle
Success
Opposed
" You are exactly what God had in mind when he made you. "
Greg Boyle
God
Exactly
Made
" 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. "
Greg Boyle
Take
I Can
Laugh