Greg Boyle Quotes

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Greg Boyle

Profession : Clergyman

Birth : May 19, 1954

We don't need a specialized gang unit. We need patrol officers who specialize in knowing their community.

Greg Boyle

The power of community policing is in the relationship. This can happen only if an officer sticks around for a while.

Greg Boyle

The powers, conditions, and desires that propel Mexicans and Central Americans into this country are so fundamental, so vast, that no action, legislative or other-wise, can discourage this flight.

Greg Boyle

Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.

Greg Boyle

I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang.

Greg Boyle

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

We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.

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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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I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can.

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I think not everything that works helps, and not everything that helps works.

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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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Showing up in the lives of children is everything.

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The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.

Greg Boyle

Anyone who knows gangs knows that lawmakers cannot conceive of a law that would lead a hard-core gang member to 'think twice.'

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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.

Greg Boyle

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.

Greg Boyle

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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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

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.'

Greg Boyle

I kinda don't do guilt. I gave it up for Lent years ago.

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