Adults Quote by 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

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

If you do nothing, that just empowers the gangs.

— Curtis Sliwa

The task of dealing comprehensively with gangs belongs to the city, not to law enforcement.

— Greg Boyle

I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.

— Jack Bowman

In this society, you have to belong to something, I feel, and all we have in the neighborhood is a gang.

— Richard Cabral

If we grow up in these communities where we have gangs, well, what do you think we're going to belong to? That's what happened…

— Richard Cabral

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

You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't…

— Anonymous

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

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

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