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American
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Clergyman
Born:
May 19
, 1954
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.
Greg Boyle
Best
Hope
God
Heart
Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.
Greg Boyle
Hero
You
Forget
Your
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
Positive
Sports
You
Community
You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it.
Greg Boyle
You
Violence
Gang
Talk
My job isn't to fix or rescue or to save. It's to accompany, see people, listen to them.
Greg Boyle
People
Job
See
Listen
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.
Greg Boyle
Success
You
Behavior
Language
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.
Greg Boyle
Violence
True
Know
Gang
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.
Greg Boyle
Poverty
Political
Push
Migration
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.
Greg Boyle
World
Matter
Wrong
Just
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.
Greg Boyle
Work
Morning
Money
Youth
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Kids are different from adults. They are not as developed as far as brain science, controlling impulses, and maturity, and fall prey to all kinds of pressures.
Greg Boyle
Science
Brain
Maturity
Fall
Even gang members imagine a future that doesn't include gangs.
Greg Boyle
Future
Gang
Imagine
Gangs
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.
Greg Boyle
Day
People
Stop
Stand
People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem.
Greg Boyle
People
Problem
Gang
See
Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.
Greg Boyle
Society
Measure
Possible
Redemption
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.
Greg Boyle
Funny
Time
People
Perfect
You are exactly what God had in mind when he made you.
Greg Boyle
God
You
Mind
He
The mark of our society as civilized will come when we embrace confidence in the power of redemption.
Greg Boyle
Confidence
Power
Society
Will
We don't need a specialized gang unit. We need patrol officers who specialize in knowing their community.
Greg Boyle
Community
Gang
Need
Who
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.
Greg Boyle
World
Gang
Complex
Social
When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can't hold it. The best we can do is find the moments that rhyme with this expansive heart of God.
Greg Boyle
Best
God
Heart
Humanity
If you are paying attention, then the day is going to be pretty joyful, and a lot of delight will fill it.
Greg Boyle
Day
You
Attention
Will
Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime.
Greg Boyle
Expectations
Need
Crime
Proactive
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.
Greg Boyle
Stand
Poor
More
Years
The power of community policing is in the relationship. This can happen only if an officer sticks around for a while.
Greg Boyle
Relationship
Power
Community
Happen
The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim and victimizer in its compassionate heart.
Greg Boyle
Heart
Society
Ability
Victim
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