“The truth is this: Brutalized, victimized children invariably will bru...” — Greg Boyle Quote

“The truth is this: Brutalized, victimized children invariably will brutalize and victimize when they grow up. Is our only response to this the certain promise that we will penalize them when they do? Or will we commit to keeping our children safe from brutality and victimization?”

“We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.”

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

“The task of dealing comprehensively with gangs belongs to the city, not to law enforcement.”

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

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

“Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.”

“I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.”

“It's true, we grew up in a ghetto. To us it wasn't too bad, but the police brutality was like that. You see three or four black kids hanging out, they pull you over, jackin' you, makin' you get down on the ground.”

“Everybody's life matters. But that's why we have to say black lives matter, because the highest disproportionality, police brutality, disenfranchisement, education disproportionality in school discipline, curriculum, misrepresentation, all of this.”

“I think police brutality has been going on since - I don't know - ever since I can remember and, you know, hearing about it in my childhood.”

“We have seen communities cry out in pain, generation after generation, because of racism and police brutality.”