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

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" Most employers just aren't willing to look beyond the dumbest or worst thing someone has done. "

" I love movies. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm not opposed to success. "

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

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

" For over twenty years, Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with those on the margins and those whose burdens are more than they can bear; it stands with the poor and the powerless, with the easily-despised and the readily-left out. "

" 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. "

" Me wanting a gang member to have a different life would never be the same as that gang member wanting to have one. "

" In my barrio, jobs work and money saves lives. When I have had the funds to place a gang member on a job site and pay his salary, I've seen him stop banging. When, on the rarest of occasions, an employer has offered a job to one of these youth, I've witnessed kids suddenly have a reason to get up in the morning. "

" 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. "

" 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 want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can. "

" My job isn't to fix or rescue or to save. It's to accompany, see people, listen to them. "

" The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is. "

" 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. "

" I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I feel called to be faithful. "

" My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that's the church. That's the people of God. "

" 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? "

" 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. "