125 Quotes by Greg Boyle

I wouldn't trade my life for anybody's.

Me wanting a gang member to have a different life would never be the same as that gang member wanting to have one.

I've never met an evil person ever.

I founded Homeboy Industries in 1988 after I buried my first young person killed in our streets because of gang violence.

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.

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

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.

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

Dorothy Day, Cesar Chavez - these are people whose thoughts are so important.