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Greg Boyle
American
Clergyman
Born:
May 19
,
1954
Church
Gang
God
People
Will
You
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Dorothy Day, Cesar Chavez - these are people whose thoughts are so important.
Greg Boyle
Day
Thoughts
People
Important
Chavez
Dorothy
Whose
Jesus did not only serve the needs of the people, but truly hoped that the people and Jesus would be one.
Greg Boyle
Needs
People
Hoped
Would
Would-Be
Only
Truly
Did
Serve
Jesus
I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine.
Greg Boyle
Machine
Has-Been
ATM
Priest
Mistaken
Been
Who
I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang.
Greg Boyle
Seen
Hopeful
Join
Never
Person
Gang
The employer is not going to choose the gang member who's just been released from prison: they're going to choose the person with the skills.
Greg Boyle
Prison
Released
Member
Employer
Been
Person
Going
Just
Skills
Choose
Gang
Homeboy Bakery is an alternative to kids who have found themselves, regrettably, in gangs and want to redirect their lives.
Greg Boyle
Kids
Bakery
Alternative
Want
Themselves
Who
Gangs
Found
Lives
I wouldn't trade my life for anybody's.
Greg Boyle
Life
My Life
Trade
Anybody
The Church should say, 'I'm frightened that women will be ordained;' that's honest, say that. But don't say, 'It's a grave sin,' because that's nonsense.
Greg Boyle
Women
Church
Will
Say
Sin
Because
Nonsense
Frightened
Ordained
Should
Grave
Honest
I'm not opposed to success.
Greg Boyle
Success
Opposed
The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.
Greg Boyle
Insisting
Simply
Erase
Erased
Get
Them
Margins
God can get tiny if we're not careful.
Greg Boyle
God
Get
Tiny
Careful
The arms of God reach to embrace, and somehow you feel yourself just outside God's fingertips.
Greg Boyle
God
You
Yourself
Embrace
Somehow
Fingertips
Outside
Feel
Reach
Arms
Just
I love movies.
Greg Boyle
Love
Movies
We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.
Greg Boyle
Single
Ought
Member
Demonize
Gang
Most employers just aren't willing to look beyond the dumbest or worst thing someone has done.
Greg Boyle
Worst
Worst Thing
Willing
Someone
Beyond
Look
Most
Employers
Dumbest
Done
Just
Thing
I feel called to be faithful.
Greg Boyle
Faithful
Feel
I don't believe in mistakes. Everything belongs, and, as the homies say, 'It's all good.'
Greg Boyle
Good
Mistakes
Believe
Everything
Say
Belongs
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.
Greg Boyle
Work
You
Believe
Otherwise
Members
Supply
Learned
Oxygen
Them
Enforce
Gang
Gangs
Lessons
Lessons Learned
Cohesion
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.
Greg Boyle
Death
Exception
Know
Forever
Going
Anybody
Anywhere
Plan
Whom
Here
There is no such thing as a bad cop, only disturbing and dominant cop thinking that will invariably lead to excessive force and tragic outcomes.
Greg Boyle
Will
Thinking
Bad
Outcomes
Disturbing
Invariably
Only
Excessive
Lead
Force
Tragic
Dominant
Cop
Thing
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.
Greg Boyle
Church
Summers
Spent
Angeles
Parish
Mission
Became
Los
Los Angeles
Pastor
Poorest
Associate
Gangs are born of a lethal absence of hope, and hope has an address: 130 W. Bruno St. in Los Angeles, CA 90012.
Greg Boyle
Hope
Address
Born
Angeles
Absence
Los
Los Angeles
Gangs
Lethal
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.
Greg Boyle
Time
People
World
Believe
Difficulty
Our
Strikes
Indeed
Our People
Visit
Tell
Jobs
Folks
Ability
Seeming
Over
Heads
Redeem
Industries
Himself
Foreign
Person
American
Scratch
Refusal
After
Placing
Them
Us
Anyone who knows gangs knows that lawmakers cannot conceive of a law that would lead a hard-core gang member to 'think twice.'
Greg Boyle
Law
Think
Member
Would
Lawmakers
Lead
Conceive
Knows
Anyone
Cannot
Who
Gang
Gangs
Twice
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.
Greg Boyle
Respect
People
Police
Focus
Long
Community
Enough
Stay
Angeles
Could
Had
Had Enough
Part
Police Department
Know
Protect
Los
Los Angeles
Officers
Department
Serve
The task of dealing comprehensively with gangs belongs to the city, not to law enforcement.
Greg Boyle
Law
City
Law Enforcement
Dealing
Task
Enforcement
Gangs
Belongs
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