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
affinity anticipate gang work
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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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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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.
god ours
Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to?
hero
Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.
change knows people
Young people can change and grow. Every parent knows that.
business
The business of second chances is everybody's business.
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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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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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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.
I think not everything that works helps, and not everything that helps works.
mistaken
I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine.
politics
All politics are local, and so in church.
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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.