Backgrounds Quote by Iain Duncan Smith

The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy…

— Iain Duncan Smith

The truth is that those who join gangs - more often than not they are young men in their later teens - often do…

— Chris Grayling

I didn't have my dad there and I had another mate who didn't have his father, and you kind of form your own little…

— Dorian Yates

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

Gangs have always existed - they are primarily a community a young men trying to find intensity, meaning, a path to the outer world…

— Luis J. Rodriguez

Gangs are formed by kids who want love.

— Charlie Murphy

My family had been involved in gangs since the 1970s.

— Richard Cabral

So many kids that we label as 'thugs' and 'criminals' are often those same kids that end up in circumstances that are out of…

— Rick Famuyiwa

I grew up in a mixed-race family in Bristol. My cousin was this white guy who was interested in Parliament, Marc Bolan, Bowie. His…

— Tricky

Not only the brothers on the street but the middle class brothers are also identifying with the gangster rappers because of the extent to…

— Angela Davis

Gangs exist when there are lots of empties in a person, in family, in community. It points out how we need to do more…

— Luis J. Rodriguez

When it comes to gang-based child exploitation, it is self-evident to anyone who cares to look that if you look at all the recent…

— Sajid Javid