Greg Boyle
Greg Boyle
Gregory "Greg" Joseph Boyleis an American Jesuit priest. He is the founder and Director of Homeboy Industries and former pastor of Dolores Mission Church...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth19 May 1954
CountryUnited States of America
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Businesses have come and gone at Homeboy Industries. We have had starts and stops, but anything worth doing is worth failing at. We started Homeboy Plumbing. That didn't go so well. Who knew? People didn't want gang members in their homes. I just didn't see that coming.
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Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that's what happens at Homeboy Industries.
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I work with gang members, and I feel a kind of affinity and gift, even. But who would've thunk it, you know? I mean, I didn't anticipate it.
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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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The employer is not going to choose the gang member who's just been released from prison: they're going to choose the person with the skills.
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Even gang members imagine a future that doesnt include gangs.
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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.'
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The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.
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People have started to see that 'smart on crime' rather than 'tough on crime' makes sense.
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I think that any program that's born from below rather than on high is going to survive.
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The arms of God reach to embrace, and somehow you feel yourself just outside God's fingertips.
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W a gang member, and especially in a Latino gang, gets jumped in, and then he's given a name, and he has that name forever, but it's not so much the name as being called by name.
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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.
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Most employers just aren't willing to look beyond the dumbest or worst thing someone has done.