American - Clergyman | May 19, 1954 -
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
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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.
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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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Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.
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Even gang members imagine a future that doesn't include gangs.
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There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us.
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We need a pope to usher in a new era of inclusion, the end of a sinful clericalism, and a strong sense of duty to those on society's margins. The 1 billion faithful long for a leader who is fearless and driven - not by terror but by love.
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Relapse happens, especially when you're dealing with folks who are frankly the least likely to succeed based on their own pasts and difficulties. We can work with the most likely to succeed. I'm not interested in that.
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You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.
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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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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.
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My job isn't to fix or rescue or to save. It's to accompany, see people, listen to them.
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