American - Clergyman | May 19, 1954 -
At its best, an injunction creates a kind of vigilant heat that moves kids toward the light.
Greg Boyle
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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.
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I think not everything that works helps, and not everything that helps works.
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I'm not going to be here forever. I don't plan on going anywhere, but I don't know anybody for whom death is an exception.
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I'm not always optimistic, but I am hopeful.
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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.
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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.'
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Showing up in the lives of children is everything.
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What is ultimately compelling for our children in helping them conjure images of a future for themselves is our willingness to walk with them as they do it.
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Our best selves tell us that 'there but for the grace of God... ' and that, in the end, there is no distance, really, between us and them. It is just us. Our best and noble hope is to imitate the God we believe in. The God who has abundant room in God's grief and heart for us all.
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The business of second chances is everybody's business.
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As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.
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