We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang. — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
The idea that any law enforcement agency or person would ever know these gang members better than Homeboy Industries is impossible. — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting,… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
Gang members aren't frightened into acceptable behavior by increased penalties, enhanced punishments, and the promise of new detention facilities. — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
I do believe in lessons learned. I have learned that you work with gang members and not with gangs; otherwise, you enforce… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
The employer is not going to choose the gang member who's just been released from prison: they're going to choose the person… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it. — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
Me wanting a gang member to have a different life would never be the same as that gang member wanting to have… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows gangs knows that lawmakers cannot conceive of a law that would lead a hard-core gang member to 'think twice.' — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
I know now that gang warfare is not the Middle East or Northern Ireland. There is violence in gang violence, but there… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
In my barrio, jobs work and money saves lives. When I have had the funds to place a gang member on a… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
You prevent kids from joining gangs by offering after-school programs, sports, mentoring, and positive engagement with adults. You intervene with gang members… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
So complex are all the ingredients that cause gang membership that it seems virtually impossible to isolate one solution that can address… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
I would hope that government officials have a healthy respect for the complexity of the gang problem. They should never lose sight… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
Like the suffering child, gang members act out of their despair, and their actions are all the more alarming now for our… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
Businesses have come and gone at Homeboy Industries. We have had starts and stops, but anything worth doing is worth failing at.… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
What do we know to be true about gang violence? We know we will fail if we fixate on the symptoms and… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
W a gang member, and especially in a Latino gang, gets jumped in, and then he's given a name, and he has… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
I know two L.A.s. Half my life was around the house my folks had for 46 years at 3rd and Norton. The… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
Homeboy Bakery is an alternative to kids who have found themselves, regrettably, in gangs and want to redirect their lives. — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
We don't need a specialized gang unit. We need patrol officers who specialize in knowing their community. — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
I founded Homeboy Industries in 1988 after I buried my first young person killed in our streets because of gang violence. — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
No kid is seeking anything when he joins a gang; he's always fleeing something. He's not being pulled; he's being pushed by… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
I work with gang members, and I feel a kind of affinity and gift, even. But who would've thunk it, you know?… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
The truth is this: Brutalized, victimized children invariably will brutalize and victimize when they grow up. Is our only response to this the certain… — Greg Boyle Copy Share
I don't save people. God saves people. I can point them in the right direction. I can say, 'There's that door. I think if… — Greg Boyle Copy Share
Gang members aren't frightened into acceptable behavior by increased penalties, enhanced punishments, and the promise of new detention facilities. — Greg Boyle Copy Share
The idea that any law enforcement agency or person would ever know these gang members better than Homeboy Industries is impossible. — Greg Boyle Copy Share
You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it. — Greg Boyle Copy Share
Most citizens viewing the tape of Rodney G. King being beaten by police officers were stunned and uncomprehending. Most citizens, that is, but the… — Greg Boyle Copy Share
“On most days, if I'm true to myself, I just want to share my life with the poor, regardless of result. I want to… — Greg Boyle Copy Share
The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is. — Greg Boyle Copy Share
“Leon Dufour, a world-renowned Jesuit theologian and Scripture scholar, a year before he died at ninety-nine, confided in a Jesuit who was caring for… — Greg Boyle Copy Share
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… — Greg Boyle Copy Share
I spent the summers of 1984 and 1985 as an associate pastor at Dolores Mission Church, the poorest parish in the Los Angeles archdiocese.… — Greg Boyle Copy Share
The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them. — Greg Boyle Copy Share
It has become an accepted tenet that kids will rarely listen to their parents but seldom fail to imitate them. Communicating the message has… — Greg Boyle Copy Share
There is no such thing as a bad cop, only disturbing and dominant cop thinking that will invariably lead to excessive force and tragic… — Greg Boyle Copy Share
