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American - 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.

Best Hope God Heart

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

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.

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.

You Violence Gang Talk

My job isn't to fix or rescue or to save. It's to accompany, see people, listen to them.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Science Brain Maturity Fall

Even gang members imagine a future that doesn't include gangs.

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.

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.

People Problem Gang See

Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.

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.

Funny Time People Perfect

You are exactly what God had in mind when he made you.

God You Mind He

The mark of our society as civilized will come when we embrace confidence in the power of redemption.

Confidence Power Society Will

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Heart Society Ability Victim

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