Greg Boyle Quotes

No given measure and no given set of measures will work a perfect cure for any serious evil.

What we do best is we target the young men and women who are on the fringe. They could go either way. Maybe they have been in trouble before, but not serious trouble. ... We cherry-pick them and circumvent them away from the gang members and drug dealers ... (and encourage) them to hang out with us and become a Guardian Angel.

Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope.

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.

At CARE, a leading humanitarian organization, we recognize people live their lives in a holistic manner. Issues such as health care, education and economic empowerment cannot be addressed in a vacuum. Thus, effective programs need to tackle the multiple root causes of poverty.

We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.

I'm confident that the commitment of the co-chairs of the Ferguson Commission - along with the work of other local leaders and the Missouri General Assembly - will have a very positive impact as this community works to move forward.

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.

We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.

How do you think we build a future? I think we build it by investing in our kids and investing in education.

I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.

In this building, my kids are going to feel like they're successful.

The evils which are complained of can not be eradicated at once; the work must be gradual.

In my reporting, I've found that real change escapes many change-makers because powerful illusions guide their projects.

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

It's not enough to tackle just the symptoms of poverty. You have to tackle the causes of poverty.

Gangs are born of a lethal absence of hope, and hope has an address: 130 W. Bruno St. in Los Angeles, CA 90012.

I am in politics because every day, I get to work to make the world a little better - for my kids and for yours.

Forgiveness provides hope, joy, and a bright future that nothing else can.

I do believe in lessons learned. I have learned that you work with gang members and not with gangs; otherwise, you enforce the cohesion of gangs and supply them oxygen.

We all need to stand together and be a part of creating the future we hope to see.

Leadership is failing. And Donald Trump is going to take a holistic approach to how we focus on these things, and he's not going to allow disparate activities in the communities to define everything.