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“Gang members aren't frightened into acceptable behavior by increased penalties, enhanced punishments, and the promise of new detention facilities.”

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The truth is this: Brutalized, victimized children invariably will brutalize and victimize when they grow up. Is our only response to this the certain…

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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…

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

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

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I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang.

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

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“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…

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The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.

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“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…

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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…

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I spent the summers of 1984 and 1985 as an associate pastor at Dolores Mission Church, the poorest parish in the Los Angeles archdiocese.…

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The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

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You don't put milk in chamomile tea - that's disgusting behavior! That's not right.

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The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or, more precisely,…

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I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.…

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The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.

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I think we've told a lot of lies about human behavior through film.

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The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.

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