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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. "
Greg Boyle
Political
Torture
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" Jesus did not only serve the needs of the people, but truly hoped that the people and Jesus would be one. "
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" Children find themselves adrift not because the informational signposts are illegible, but because there is no one around to guide and accompany them. "
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" We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease. "
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" The task of dealing comprehensively with gangs belongs to the city, not to law enforcement. "
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" The desire of God's heart is immeasurably larger than our imaginations can conjure. "
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" I don't save people. God saves people. I can point them in the right direction. I can say, 'There's that door. I think if you walked through it, you'd be happier than you are.' "
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" I work with gang members, and I feel a kind of affinity and gift, even. But who would've thunk it, you know? I mean, I didn't anticipate it. "
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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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" My job isn't to fix or rescue or to save. It's to accompany, see people, listen to them. "
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" You don't really get Jesus saying very often there'll be pie in the sky when you die. He's really talking about now and today, and it's supposed to be like that. You're supposed to delight in what's right in front of you. "
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" We need not wait for further, well-placed home video cameras to see that low-intensity warfare is being waged against low-income minorities. We need only listen to the voices of the poor; they can testify that they are dehumanized, disparaged, and despised by the police. "
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" Kids are different from adults. They are not as developed as far as brain science, controlling impulses, and maturity, and fall prey to all kinds of pressures. "
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" Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society. "
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" I'm not going to be here forever. I don't plan on going anywhere, but I don't know anybody for whom death is an exception. "
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" So complex are all the ingredients that cause gang membership that it seems virtually impossible to isolate one solution that can address them all and thereby manufacture a hope for the future upon which these kids can rely. "
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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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" Does God feel like that same-sex marriage could happen? I don't think anybody who has a connection to God and God's understanding and depth of compassion who's gonna say 'no.' "
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" The arms of God reach to embrace, and somehow you feel yourself just outside God's fingertips. "
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" All politics are local, and so in church. "
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" Young people can change and grow. Every parent knows that. "
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" I spent the summers of 1984 and 1985 as an associate pastor at Dolores Mission Church, the poorest parish in the Los Angeles archdiocese. In 1986, I became pastor of the church. "
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" In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma. "
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" I'm not opposed to success. "
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" The power of community policing is in the relationship. This can happen only if an officer sticks around for a while. "
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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 oversee not simply a modernization of the church but its total transformation. "
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" If the Los Angeles Police Department had enough officers, it could focus on one part of the community and stay there long enough to know and respect the people the officers are called on to protect and serve. "
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