Balanced 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

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

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

— Chris Grayling

“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

Gangs are formed by kids who want love.

— Charlie Murphy

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

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

Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and…

— Greg Boyle

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

I think we all understand, for the most part, the mentality of gangs and how gangs get formed and the tribalism of it all.…

— Mike Faist

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

— Rachel House

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