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.

Greg Boyle

Categorized in : Stories Challenges Compassion

The mark of our society as civilized will come when we embrace confidence in the power of redemption.

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

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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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When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can't hold it. The best we can do is find the moments that rhyme with this expansive heart of God.

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If you are paying attention, then the day is going to be pretty joyful, and a lot of delight will fill it.

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Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime.

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For over twenty years, Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with those on the margins and those whose burdens are more than they can bear; it stands with the poor and the powerless, with the easily-despised and the readily-left out.

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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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The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim and victimizer in its compassionate heart.

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