Greg Boyle

We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease.

If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives.

Relapse happens, especially when you're dealing with folks who are frankly the least likely to succeed based on their own pasts and difficulties. We can work with the most likely to succeed. I'm not interested in that.

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

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

Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with the 'demonized' so that the demonizing will stop; it stands with the 'disposable' so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.

The idea that any law enforcement agency or person would ever know these gang members better than Homeboy Industries is impossible.