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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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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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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Even gang members imagine a future that doesnt include gangs.
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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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I know two L.A.s. Half my life was around the house my folks had for 46 years at 3rd and Norton. The other half was in Boyle Heights on the Eastside, working with gang members.
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I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine.
hero
Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.
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The business of second chances is everybody's business.
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Young people can change and grow. Every parent knows that.
god ours
Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to?
politics
All politics are local, and so in church.
I think not everything that works helps, and not everything that helps works.