Gang Quotes

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  The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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• You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.

  S. E. Hinton

  Brother, New York, Together

  S. E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.28, Penguin

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• The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Leadership, Leader, Speed

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.73, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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

  Real, Borders, Rivals

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• But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

  LeBron James

  Sports, Drug, Way

  Interview with Larry King, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2010.

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• It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs. We should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.

  Snoop Dogg

  Football, Kids, Drug

  "Welcome to Britain, Mr Dogg: rapper is less gangsta, more pussycat, judge rules" by Rachel Williams, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2008.

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• Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.

  Jesse Jackson

  Groups, Youth, Reactions

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• A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

  Mickey Mantle

  Teamwork, Sports, Baseball

  Mickey Mantle (1964). “The Quality of Courage”, p.90, U of Nebraska Press

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• However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

  Bob Filner

  California, Statistics, Might

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• And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes.

  Bobby Scott

  Girl, Jobs, Home

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• Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.

  Kristin Davis

  People, Drug

  "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.

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• At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  School, Leftovers, Wanted

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• Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.

  Bob Filner

  Cities, Population, Three

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• Unfortunately, my district like many others across the country has a problem with gangs, which is why I introduced this amendment

  Bob Filner

  Country, Problem, Amendments

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• Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

  Tom Hayden

  War, California, Prison

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• I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show.

  Emily Mortimer

  Drinking, School, Technology

  "Woman on the verge" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

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• At home it's all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don't want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so I'll go out for a drink with the girls.

  Sadie Frost

  Girl, Stars, War

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

  Tom Hayden

  Book, Taught, Courses

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• The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.

  Tom Hayden

  Running, Gang Members, Justice

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• I had seen so many injustices done in the court by well-meaning people. I had lost fourteen clients to gang violence in only seven years. I was angry at a system I thought had failed my clients, and I was part of it.

  Richard Helms

  Years, People, Done

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• It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days.

  Todd McFarlane

  Growing Up, Couple, Book

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• From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.

  Virginia Foxx

  Leadership, Country, Children

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• God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.

  Mother Jones

  Thieves, Almighty, Made

  "Autobiography of Mother Jones" by Mary Harris Jones, Courier Corporation, (p. 125), April 30, 2012.

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• West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.

  Vincente Minnelli

  New York, Dancing, Style

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

  Ezra Pound

  Sound, Loathing, Instinct

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