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You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it.

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My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that's the church. That's the people of God.

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I do believe in lessons learned. I have learned that you work with gang members and not with gangs; otherwise, you enforce the cohesion of gangs and supply them oxygen.

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I founded Homeboy Industries in 1988 after I buried my first young person killed in our streets because of gang violence.

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We need a pope to usher in a new era of inclusion, the end of a sinful clericalism, and a strong sense of duty to those on society's margins. The 1 billion faithful long for a leader who is fearless and driven - not by terror but by love.

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The truth is this: Brutalized, victimized children invariably will brutalize and victimize when they grow up. Is our only response to this the certain promise that we will penalize them when they do? Or will we commit to keeping our children safe from brutality and victimization?

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No kid is seeking anything when he joins a gang; he's always fleeing something. He's not being pulled; he's being pushed by the circumstances in which he finds himself.

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You are exactly what God had in mind when he made you.

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There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us.

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I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: May 19th, 1954

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