Children Quote by Jesse White

Gangs are formed by kids who want love.

— Charlie Murphy

“Here are some reasons kids join gangs. You tell me which might be applicable here.” The list included: looking for a sense of respect…

— Kathryn Shay

You prevent kids from joining gangs by offering after-school programs, sports, mentoring, and positive engagement with adults. You intervene with gang members by offering…

— Greg Boyle

We just need more father figures and more older people to come and school these youth, because there will be a lost generation. And…

— Jay Rock

And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training…

— Bobby Scott

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 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

“Little boys run in gangs, grown men organise teams.”

— Habeeb Akande

It's so unfortunate that people have this need to join gangs.

— Rachel House

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

— Chris Grayling

In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for…

— Iain Duncan Smith

We [people] all need each other. Gangs do try to fill that void - but they can't do what healthy, balanced, and coherent families…

— Luis J. Rodriguez