Greg Boyle
Greg Boyle

There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us.

Greg Boyle
Greg Boyle

Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.

Greg Boyle
Greg Boyle

You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.

Greg Boyle
Greg Boyle

Even gang members imagine a future that doesn't include gangs.

Greg Boyle
Greg Boyle

You are so much more than the worst thing you've ever done.

Greg Boyle
Greg Boyle

You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it.

Greg Boyle
Greg Boyle

You are exactly what God had in mind when he made you.

Greg Boyle
Greg Boyle

Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the conditions that force their migration.

Greg Boyle
Greg Boyle

My job isn't to fix or rescue or to save. It's to accompany, see people, listen to them.

Greg Boyle
Greg Boyle

What do we know to be true about gang violence? We know we will fail if we fixate on the symptoms and not address what undergirds it.

Greg Boyle
Greg Boyle

Kids are different from adults. They are not as developed as far as brain science, controlling impulses, and maturity, and fall prey to all kinds of pressures.

Greg Boyle
Greg Boyle

Like the suffering child, gang members act out of their despair, and their actions are all the more alarming now for our not having heeded their cry long ago. The shortsighted neglect that keeps us locked up in our outrage has also kept us from viable solutions.

Greg Boyle
Greg Boyle

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.

Greg Boyle
Greg Boyle

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
Greg Boyle

God can get tiny if we're not careful.

Greg Boyle
Greg Boyle

People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem.

Greg Boyle
Greg Boyle

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

Greg Boyle
Greg Boyle

No kid is seeking anything when he joins a gang; he's always fleeing something. He's not being pulled; he's being pushed by the circumstances in which he finds himself.

Greg Boyle
Greg Boyle

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

Greg Boyle
Greg Boyle

I'm not always optimistic, but I am hopeful.