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" 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. "

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" 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

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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. "

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

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

" Gang members aren't frightened into acceptable behavior by increased penalties, enhanced punishments, and the promise of new detention facilities. "

" 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. "

" 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

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" We don't need a specialized gang unit. We need patrol officers who specialize in knowing their community. "

" 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. "

" Richard Rohr is a theologian that I read. "

" The desire of God's heart is immeasurably larger than our imaginations can conjure. "

" 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. "

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

" We are less than honest and commit a grave error if we insist that what happened to Rodney G. King was isolated and an exceptional case. The poor know better. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with the 'demonized' so that the demonizing will stop; it stands with the 'disposable' so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away. "

" Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story. "

" People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem. "

" 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.' "

" It has become an accepted tenet that kids will rarely listen to their parents but seldom fail to imitate them. Communicating the message has never been a good substitute for 'showing up' and embodying the message. "

" 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. "

" The arms of God reach to embrace, and somehow you feel yourself just outside God's fingertips. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I founded Homeboy Industries in 1988 after I buried my first young person killed in our streets because of gang violence. "