Gang Quotes - Page 18

• Girls come to the gang for very different reasons than boys. For boys in marginalized communities, they have a gender problem, and they solve it often through gang membership. They find an ability to do masculinity in a way that reasserts their importance in a society that mostly ignores them. For girls, they're coming out of more damaged backgrounds. Their families are often the reason they get propelled into gang membership.

  Meda Chesney-Lind

  Girl, Boys, Community

  "Girls and Gangs". Interview with Lisa Wong Macabasco, www.motherjones.com. December 19, 2005.

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• The gang may be a safer place than home, but it's not without its problems. In some instances, especially in the Latino community, the boys have very traditional views of femininity even though they are gang members. The girls can be [seen] as sexually available, but not the good girl that you want to take home to your family, even by young men in the gangs.

  Meda Chesney-Lind

  Girl, Home, Boys

  "Girls and Gangs". Interview with Lisa Wong Macabasco, www.motherjones.com. December 19, 2005.

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• After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in 1933, this was seen as such an emergency that human rights had to be suspended. The attack on the World Trade Towers has allowed Bush and his gang to do anything. What are we to do now? I say when there's a code red, we should all run around like chickens with our heads cut off. I don't feel that we are in any great danger.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Running, War, Cutting

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• The internal and international criminal gang will either be forced to work or simply exterminated.

  Adolf Hitler

  Criminals, Internals, International

  Richard Breiting, Adolf Hitler (1971). “Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews”

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• When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control.

  William Safire

  Sports, Team, Government

  "The Great Unwatched" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. February 18, 2002.

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• 80 percent of any gang is not there to attack someone. They're there so no one will attack them.

  Michael Caine

  Percent

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. April 30, 2010.

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• The girls go to the gang in order to get protection from victimization that's occurring in their lives. And also it's a place to be, because they're often rejected from and rejecting their families.

  Meda Chesney-Lind

  Girl, Order, Protection

  "Girls and Gangs". Interview with Lisa Wong Macabasco, www.motherjones.com. December 19, 2005.

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• Women became almost our bigger audience. Teenage girls went crazy for my movie. I saw it. I went to theatres all over and there were gangs of girls going and screaming. There were kids that were 10 or 11 years old when September 11 happened. They've been told for years they're going to get killed, they're going to get blown up. Every time you go on an airplane, X-ray your shoes because you're going to get blown up. Terror alert orange, don't travel. So, people have a reaction and they want to scream. Horror movies have become the new date movie.

  Eli Roth

  Girl, Teenage, Crazy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Apparently my street has a leaf blower gang who tag team all day, so the sounds of the leaf blower are forever blowing from dawn to dusk.

  Bob Saget

  Team, Forever, Tag

  Twitter post from Nov 29, 2011

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• There's a time when people give their words to each other it has to mean something. I'm a street cat. I've belonged in gangs and when you had a partner, you went down with your partner whether you won the fight or lost it. You went down together.

  Barry White

  Mean, Cat, Fighting

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why.

  Jack Nicholson

  Motorcycle Gangs, Shy, Get Real

  Source: the-talks.com

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