Our Quote by Nayib Bukele

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 the truth is told, the youth can grow Then learn to survive until they gain control Nobody says you have to be gangstas,…

— Nas

What we do best is we target the young men and women who are on the fringe. They could go either way. Maybe they…

— Curtis Sliwa

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 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

Before we tackle the gangs and the basic story, we have to make sure that we have liberated ourselves from how we have been…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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 are formed by kids who want love.

— Charlie Murphy

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

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

Part of the reason young people are getting involved with gangs, leading to the use of guns and knives, is not the lack of…

— Chuka Umunna