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Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.

~Greg Boyle

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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 alternatives and employment to help redirect their lives. You deal with areas of high gang crime activity with real community policing. We know what works.

~Greg Boyle

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You are so much more than the worst thing you've ever done.

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The mark of our society as civilized will come when we embrace confidence in the power of redemption.

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Even gang members imagine a future that doesn't include gangs.

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You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.

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Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the conditions that force their migration.

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I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine.

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The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim and victimizer in its compassionate heart.

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Delegations from all over the world visit Homeboy Industries and scratch their heads as we tell them of our difficulty in placing our people in jobs after their time with us. Americans' seeming refusal to believe in a person's ability to redeem himself strikes these folks as foreign indeed.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: May 19th, 1954

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