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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. -- Greg Boyle
  • Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs. -- Hamid Karzai
  • Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness. -- Jesse Jackson
  • I never got into the gangs. Gangs are for followers. -- Edgerrin James
  • I did 'Gangs of New York' with Martin Scorsese, and they used to call me 'Little Joe Pesci' on the set. -- Stephen Graham
  • I realise I'm behind on this but Rebekah Brooks was married to Ross Kemp of Gangs fame?! And she assaulted him? That explains so much. -- Mandy Wiener
  • We will accomplish all of the steps .And, when we do, peace and law and justice and prosperity will prevail. Crime will go down. Border crossings will plummet. Gangs will disappear. -- Donald Trump
  • We're this big melting pot, but someone turned up the heat too high, and the stew started to burn. Gangs, crime, fights, and fear are now a regular part of our local stew. -- Neal Shusterman
  • Gangs exist when there are lots of empties in a person, in family, in community. It points out how we need to do more to bring real art, passions, teachings, caring, and resources into the emptiness of young peoples' lives. -- Luis J. Rodriguez
  • Fans are your greatest enemies because they tend to bracket you. And the moment someone expects I should do something, I break out. I often tell fans who say, 'Make a 'Gulal 2' or 'Gangs 3,' that I am living my dream, not theirs. -- Anurag Kashyap
  • Gangs have always existed - they are primarily a community a young men trying to find intensity, meaning, a path to the outer world (outside of home) that most tribal groupings addressed with rituals, rites of passage, initiation ceremonies. We've lost this knowledge as a culture. -- Luis J. Rodriguez
  • Even gang members imagine a future that doesn't include gangs. -- Greg Boyle
  • I know people in gangs; I could have went down that route. -- will.i.am
  • I think we have always had a fascination for gangs and gangsters, and I think we always will. -- Ross Kemp
  • People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. -- Alexei Sayle
  • Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen. -- David Wilkerson
  • But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs. -- Thomas Keneally
  • In fashion, there are so many gangs, if you identify too much with one, you get caught - I would lose my freedom. -- Daphne Guinness
  • The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them. -- Iain Duncan Smith
  • The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill. -- Robert Anton Wilson
  • My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward. -- Martin Scorsese
  • The thing is, and Americans are starting to realize this now, that while street gangs are violent, the Democrats and Republicans are worse. They are worse because their decisions affect your life. -- Jesse Ventura
  • As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems. -- Bernie Mac
  • When I started in the clubs, I had to work places where didn't nobody else want to work. I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature. -- Bernie Mac
  • Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties. -- Lincoln Steffens
  • In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene. -- Iain Duncan Smith
  • I charge my wealthy clients a lot and put 10 per cent in a fund which I use to pay the expenses of my poorer clients. When the government gangs up on the poor schnook in the street, someone has to stand up for him. -- Alan Dershowitz
  • Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families. -- Gary Bauer
  • Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that. -- Steven Seagal
  • What a lot of people don't realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone. -- Michael Caine
  • In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront. -- Lupe Fiasco
  • My parents separated before I was 1 year old. I moved in with my aunt and uncle when I was in fourth grade. I was, like, 8 or 9 years old. I was getting in a lot of trouble when I was in Southern California. My older sisters were in gangs. My older brother was in gangs. -- Troy Polamalu
  • Senseless violence is, almost by definition, hard to understand. Not that I can understand terrorists who kill from hate, but at least we can identify a reason - a terrifying one, to be sure, grounded in a violent belief system - for what they do. Two gangs go to war. Extremists kill in the name of belief. -- Susan Estrich
  • I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy - to get into trouble. Surrounded by poor schools, lack of resources, high unemployment rates, poverty, gangs and more, I watched as many of my peers fell victim to a vicious cycle of diminished opportunities and imprisonment. -- Al Sharpton
  • One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. -- Martin Scorsese
  • If you do nothing, that just empowers the gangs. -- Curtis Sliwa
  • Even gang members imagine a future that doesnt include gangs. -- Greg Boyle
  • What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits. -- Saint Augustine
  • Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers. -- Robert Anton Wilson
  • Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental. -- Tom Hayden
  • In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States. -- Dave Reichert
  • Are gun rights advocates arguing that roving gangs...shooting innocent bystanders constitutes a 'well-regulated militia'? -- Bill Hicks
  • They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow. -- Neil Kinnock
  • No actions by gangs or individuals can justify the deaths of eight hundred thousand people. -- Taner Akçam
  • It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad -- Terry Pratchett
  • I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs. -- Dan Gelber
  • Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either. -- Kristin Davis
  • Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why. -- Jack Nicholson
  • West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York. -- Vincente Minnelli
  • Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors. -- Stephen Covey
  • Homeboy Bakery is an alternative to kids who have found themselves, regrettably, in gangs and want to redirect their lives. -- Greg Boyle
  • Unfortunately, my district like many others across the country has a problem with gangs, which is why I introduced this amendment -- Bob Filner
  • Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout. -- Tom Hayden
  • One of the differences between boy gangs and girl gangs is for girls it's much more relational and much less violent. -- Meda Chesney-Lind
  • From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul, America has created musicians dedicated to truth, justice, and a better American Way. -- Shawn Amos
  • Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives. -- George Gilder
  • Social ills: teenage pregnancy, gangs, children with behavioral problems. All these things can be alleviated if kids got more physical activity for starters. -- Edwin Moses
  • That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him! -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • 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. -- Greg Boyle
  • I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed. -- Jack Bowman
  • One thing we forget about Hispanics is that they're family-unit-oriented as a culture. So it's not all wild Mexican gangs out there, as is rumored. -- Nick Nolte
  • Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college. -- Robert Frost
  • Wild groups of chimpanzees attack their enemies like gangs. What they completely lack, precisely because of their strong territorial behavior, is a friendly relationship with their neighbors. -- Frans de Waal
  • In my opinion hard core gardeners, like eco-terrorists, some street gangs, and any American militia group itching for a confrontation with the FBI, have forgotten the main idea -- Lindley Karstens
  • We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster. -- Wayne LaPierre
  • Everything I did in the jails - chain gangs, everything - I haven't changed the policy. I did it, I stand by it, and I'm not going to change. -- Joe Arpaio
  • In the '60s and '70s, people didn't pay a lot of attention to gangs. I think gangs still existed, but gangs had fallen out of criminological favor. -- Meda Chesney-Lind
  • When it comes to stop-and-frisk, you know, Hillary Clinton is talking about takes guns away.Well, I'm talking about taking guns away from gangs and people that use them. -- Donald Trump
  • People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others. -- Elizabeth Drew
  • The most dangerous kind of girl involvement with gangs is one where the girls are just sort of hanging around the gang boys or even being part of the male gang. -- Meda Chesney-Lind
  • Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play. -- Walter Scott
  • A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in the absence of police, thugs will gather into gangs. -- S.M. Stirling
  • There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs. -- Donnie Yen
  • I think this is just the natural progression of Columbus gangs. They are getting older now, and they are looking for newer markets. We're really seeing them spreading throughout the state, especially south. -- Patricia Brooks
  • The gangs of arrogant thieves that can rob you of your success are your own doubts, fears and low self-image. Get them arrested and kept distances apart and you and your accomplishments are secured. -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • We're going to build the bridge to the 21st century, we have to make our children free - free of the vise grip of guns and gangs and drugs; free to build lives of hope. -- William J. Clinton
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