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American - Clergyman Born: May 19, 1954

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

You Hero 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

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

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 Sit

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 Stand Stop

Homeboy Bakery is an alternative to kids who have found themselves, regrettably, in gangs and want to redirect their lives.

Want Who Found Bakery

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

People Job See Listen

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

Showing up in the lives of children is everything.

Children Everything Showing Up Up

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

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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.

Work You Succeed Own

Most citizens viewing the tape of Rodney G. King being beaten by police officers were stunned and uncomprehending. Most citizens, that is, but the urban poor.

King Police Poor Being

The desire of God's heart is immeasurably larger than our imaginations can conjure.

God Heart Desire Than

We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far.

Difficult Go Need Us

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

I founded Homeboy Industries in 1988 after I buried my first young person killed in our streets because of gang violence.

Violence Person Gang Young

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 Succeed Stand

There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us.

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

Future Gang Imagine Even

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

God You Mind He

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.

Political Poverty Push Migration

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.

Love Community Gang Always

Metro police can't infuse hope into those for whom hope is foreign. The algorithm does not exist that can heal the traumatized. Data-driven predictions won't result in the delivery of mental health services.

Hope Health Police Result

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.

True Violence Know Gang

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

Community Gang Need Knowing

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 Hold

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