Best quotes by Greg Boyle on Gang
Checkout quotes by Greg Boyle on Gang
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‟ Even gang members imagine a future that doesn't include gangs.
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‟ You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it.
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‟ We don't need a specialized gang unit. We need patrol officers who specialize in knowing their community.
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‟ 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.
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‟ 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.
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‟ People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem.
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‟ 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.
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‟ Businesses have come and gone at Homeboy Industries. We have had starts and stops, but anything worth doing is worth failing at. We started Homeboy Plumbing. That didn't go so well. Who knew? People didn't want gang members in their homes. I just didn't see that coming.
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‟ 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.
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‟ I founded Homeboy Industries in 1988 after I buried my first young person killed in our streets because of gang violence.
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‟ I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang.
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‟ 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.
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