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“Fundamentally gangs are a consequence of lawlessness, not a cause.”
― Jill Leovy, Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“He had forgotten that the most elemental instinct in human nature is not hate but love, the former inextricably linked to the latter.”
― Attica Locke, Bluebird, Bluebird

“Some may argue that we shouldn't shelter our children. We should let them see and experience the sins that are all around us. By keeping the children unaware, they say, we are preventing the development of their defenses. I disagreed. We have our whole lives to experience the ugliness, our whole lives to grapple with society's misplaced priorities. Trying to give a child a childhood was nothing to be ashamed of.”
― J.D. Trafford, Little Boy Lost