Gang Quotes · Page 2

At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

— Tom Hayden

The idea that any law enforcement agency or person would ever know these gang members better than Homeboy Industries is impossible.

— Greg Boyle

India lives in several centuries at the same time. Every night outside my house I pass a road gang of emaciated laborers…

— Arundhati Roy

When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an…

— Henry David Thoreau

The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.

— Tom Hayden

Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you…

— Georg Buchner

People talk about gangs as if they're something new. But it really isn't that way. The Democratic Party is a gang. The…

— Wes Studi

You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it.

— Greg Boyle

I was a hoodlum. I was a gang member, and art saved my life.

— F. Murray Abraham

The ones that were relevant while I wrote my book were books like "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, which is based on a…

— Laila Lalami

Been having a fight with your blankets, Septimus?" A familiar voice echoed down the chimney. "Looks like you lost," the voice continued…

— Angie Sage

I was raised inside the gang culture.

— Kendrick Lamar

Adolescents tend to be passionate people, and passion is no less real because it is directed toward a hot-rod, a commercialized popular…

— Edgar Friedenberg

I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang.

— Greg Boyle

Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens…

— Ayn Rand

I went to a failing school, and by the grace of God, my mother was able to put me into private school,…

— Stacey Dash

I think 98% of gang members in Los Angeles would agree that being a gang is just like being part of a community.

— Richard Cabral

It is kind of weird being the last gang in town.

— Steve Diggle

The gang may be a safer place than home, but it's not without its problems. In some instances, especially in the Latino…

— Meda Chesney-Lind

There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.

— John Cage

On his [Marco Rubio] Gang of Eight bill, he would have liberalized immigration, but he did not - and he steadfastly opposed…

— Ted Cruz

Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.

— Kristin Davis

I really didn't have any plan for her other than the henchgirl role, who was better at getting laughs out of the…

— Paul Dini

This [Gang of Eight bill (S.744)] is far, far too many low-skilled workers that are going to take jobs and pull down…

— Jeff Sessions