Gangs Quotes

“A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.”
― Mickey Mantle

“Had I left some children behind somewhere in the world?”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

“Scopolamine never asks for permission”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

“Buy a whore a cup of tea and she'll tell you the world! Hookers know everything”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

“I have friends in the police, friends in the military, we can do anything you want.”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

“I don't like the way people cherish the ghetto, as if it’s some royal palace, or kingdom. I also don't like the way people treat each other in the ghetto. It is really hard to find love, trust, and respect. You don't find too many people that want to do better for themselves in the ghetto because so many people seem to be satisfied with where they're at.”
― Delano Johnson, Words That Changed the World

“Romeo and Juliet was basically on some gang shit. You could say she was a Queen Lord, and he was a GD. They went out on their own terms like some straight-up Gs.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“But Alonso kept smiling that smile and nothing made any sense with that smile looking you in the face. 'Jim, don't tell me that, you know, brother-shit. I have been through it all. Take, you know, advice. There is only one thing and that is the kick, the Now. Nothing else counts. Get yours. Get it because, you know, no one cares and they will always put you down in the end, Jim, and the only word that counts is, you know, Now. Not that foolish brother and bopping jazz, Jim. Now. Because if it all don't go up in any, you know, twenty minutes; up, all gone; then they are going to put you down and keep you down. Now.”
― Sol Yurick, The Warriors

“The call to love our enemies is, without a doubt, the most difficult thing Jesus invited us to do. . . For gang members, the decision to not retaliate can be a life and death decision. It is a ridiculous call, and yet, as the cycle of violence is broken and Love spreads, the ripples of Love change the world.”
― jamie west zumwalt, Beloved Chaos: moving from religion to Love in a red light district

“Gang members have joined the military since the mid-1800s.”
― Carter F. Smith, Gangs and the Military: Gangsters, Bikers, and Terrorists with Military Training

“Gangs have had connections to the U.S. Military in every period since the founding of the country.”
― Carter F. Smith, Gangs and the Military: Gangsters, Bikers, and Terrorists with Military Training

“The first gang members who joined the military were known as the Hounds, a group of former New York gang members.”
― Carter F. Smith, Gangs and the Military: Gangsters, Bikers, and Terrorists with Military Training

“Congress has mandated an annual report on street gang, outlaw biker, and domestic extremist activity in the military since 2008.”
― Carter F. Smith, Gangs and the Military: Gangsters, Bikers, and Terrorists with Military Training

“Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemption
For the sins committed before revelation.”
― Carlos Salinas, Got the Flow: The Hip-Hop Diary of a Young Rapper

“...[A] lot of them, without even understanding the cause, just give up. They take what they can-mostly in pleasure,and they make the grand gesture, the wild gesture, because what have they got to lose if they do die in a car wreck or a knife fight or something else equally stupid.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

“Boys' gangs are neighborhood institutions.”
― Robert Ezra Park, The City: Suggestions for Investigation of Human Behavior in the Urban Environment

“Pickleball is the greatest sport ever invented. Nowhere else will you see communities torn apart by opposing groups of Boomers, each battling over courts like rival gangs fighting over turf.”
― Jarod Kintz, Powdered Saxophone Music

“If you have a kind of ideology, however bizarre, it gives a gang direction and justification for whatever it does. It is not just a war. It becomes a holy war.”
― Luis Rodríguez, Always Running La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A>

“Do not rescue your children from the consequences of their actions-HOW TO TALK TO YOUR CHILD ABOUT GANGS, Author, V J SMITH, BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK”
― V J Smith, AMAZING BOOK OF CRAFTS

“Alfred said more people have died in LA gang conflicts than the troubles in Ireland. You'd never thought of it like that, which is his point: no one thinks of it like that.”
― Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams

“Forgetting begets forgetting begets ongoing mass murder.”
― Roberto Lovato, Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas

“In the modern world, the threat to human life and safety now comes almost exclusively from other human beings.”
― Richard L. Currier, Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink

“Omar explained that Crips was anacronym for Community Revolution in Progress (...) They were first meant to offer guardianship and community to counter crime and violence. (...) Incidentally, the Bloods rose up for the same reason in 1972, except they were meant to provide protection from the Crips. So it was a self-perpetuating cycle of attack and defense.”
― Antong Lucky, A Redemptive Path Forward: From Incarceration to a Life of Activism

“Yeah, well. I don't work for you.”
― Gary Nanson, In Your Mind's Eye

“If there was one thing Felan had learned, it was that adults always made excuses, and children were always to blame.”
― Maisie Kitton, Opium

“Felan wondered if he was dark and dirty on the inside too.”
― Maisie Kitton, Opium

“You can keep repeating by doing the same thing, the easy thing, or you can do what's hard and evolve.”
― Maisie Kitton, Opium

“She was blonde; hair cut casually just above her shoulders in a way that seemed to say 'who really gives a fuck?' Perfect. And that ass. It filled those jeans in a way that would allow you to read the date on a nickel wedged inside her back pocket.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle, KING OF THE NEW YORK STREETS

“For a coward, Aleem had a hard punch.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“Greetings, Blue Glass,' came a man's voice from a shadowed archway.

'Greetings,' Springer replied heartily, in spite of his shortness of breath. In the green light Nella could see his forehead glistening with sweat.

'There are four food couriers?' came a suspicious observation. Another man stood off to one side, a misty silhouette holding what looked like a crossbow pointed downwards. He stepped a little closer.

'Volunteer, learning the ropes.'

'Hi,' Nella said in that awkward way she was having to get used to, meeting so many new people in such a short space of time. Her greeting got no response except that the armed man faded back into the mist. She decided to treat this as a good sign. (Lady Snyper - chapter 6)”
― Martyn X Brown, Early Works Volume One