Children Quote by Greg Boyle

The gang culture - tragically - has for some young people become the only source of stability in their lives.

— Chris Grayling

Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.

— Jesse Jackson

Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally…

— Iain Duncan Smith

We will not rest until being a gang member is a miserable, undesirable life.

— Rob Ford

As gang members, as young dudes in the streets, especially in L.A., we're the effect of a situation. We didn't wake up and create…

— Nipsey Hussle

When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like…

— Bertolt Brecht

What do we know to be true about gang violence? We know we will fail if we fixate on the symptoms and not address…

— Greg Boyle

To go against gangs or drugs is meaningless unless this is mostly done by filling in the empties, the vacuums, and stop the neglect…

— Luis J. Rodriguez

When you're in a gang, you go through life like any other individual. You have certain obligations, but you are not forced to do…

— Richard Cabral

“Isolating oneself into a narrowly defined victim group promotes a view of others as irrelevant at best and dangerous at worst, which eventually only…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

Kids have to be tough to survive on the streets of Kathmandu, where older gang members often beat and rob them. They face cold…

— Craig Kielburger

Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and…

— Dave Reichert