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Quotes About Gangs

Most of the guys I grew up with let the streets and the gangs influence them. Maybe one or two of them made it to college. All the negative things were all around me.
~ Daniel Jacobs
The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
~ Iain Duncan Smith
I sort of understand why there is a brotherhood of Hamlets. It's a nice part of acting; you do get to be part of gangs.
~ Rory Kinnear
My family had been involved in gangs since the 1970s.
~ Richard Cabral
'Gangs Of Wasseypur' had two parts and 200 actors. I didn't think it would be that successful and go to international festivals. These things just happen. You should just do films that you like doing.
~ Huma Qureshi
I came to the U.S. to have opportunities. I saw a lot of people in gangs. I just didn't understand that - you live in the U.S., you have all these opportunities. And then you get in a gang?
~ apl.de.ap
Huma has made her mark in the industry with films like 'Gangs of Wasseypur' and 'Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana.' I am happy for what she has achieved today because we belong to a non-film background.
~ Saqib Saleem
There were a lot of gangs in high school. Instead of being in a gang, I decided to dance.
~ apl.de.ap
I didn't have my dad there and I had another mate who didn't have his father, and you kind of form your own little family and that's what gangs are, that's why you have so many gangs now because there are so many kids without fathers that they seek their own male bonding.
~ Dorian Yates
In my barrio, jobs work and money saves lives. When I have had the funds to place a gang member on a job site and pay his salary, I've seen him stop banging. When, on the rarest of occasions, an employer has offered a job to one of these youth, I've witnessed kids suddenly have a reason to get up in the morning.
~ Greg Boyle
When I moved from Armenia to L.A., I moved to North Kingsley Drive. That was my street, that's where I grew up and I saw everything there. I started skateboarding there. I witnessed homelessness, the poor, you know, I noticed gangs. I learned about friendship.
~ Shavo Odadjian
I saw a lot of bad things happen by people I know and to people I know. There were a lot of different gangs around and sometimes you found yourself in conflict. I found myself attracting negative things because I was in a negative environment, I was pre-determining this stuff before it happened.
~ Anthony Yarde
Gang shootings—as indiscriminate as they often are—still don't have the nihilistic intent of rampages. Rather, they are rooted in an exceedingly strong sense of group loyalty and revenge, and bystanders sometimes get killed in the process.
~ Sebastian Junger
I remember, during an ad shoot, Anurag said to me that you are doing my film, and I was wondering do we really get films so easily. I thought you have to struggle and all. But he kept his word and offered me 'Gangs Of Wasseypur.'
~ Huma Qureshi
i like the book my bloody life because it tell what gange related do and what makeks them feel bad
~ Sanchez Raymundo
Now in those days, my brothers, the teaming up was mostly by fours and fives, these being like auto-teams, for being a comfy number for an auto, and six being the outside limit for gang-size. Sometimes gangs would gang up so as to make like malenky armies for big nightwar, but mostly it was best to roam in these like small numbers.
~ Anthony Burgess
Mothers) They lose their children's love. Reunited, they end up in conflict homes. Too often, the boys seek out gangs to try to find the love they thought they would find with their mothers. Too often, the girls get pregnant and form their own families. In many ways, these separations are devastating Latino families. People are losing what they value the most.
~ Sonia Nazario
Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion — and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion… while truth again reverts to a new minority.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years.
~ Albert Wynn
Boxing saved my life. There were a lot of gangs and I was hanging around with the wrong people.
~ Andy Ruiz Jr.
The Hawkhurst Gang was a pernicious set of ruffians – smugglers, you understand – that held a rule of terror over the countryside when your grandfather was a boy. They committed every sort of atrocity, and were so strong in numbers – how many men was it they were able to muster within an hour, Father?''I forget,' returned his lordship shortly. 'Five hundred,' supplied Richmond. 'And they used to have regular battles with rival gangs!
~ Georgette Heyer
Privileges of age, size, and ass-kissing. If you survive this conversation, you'll find that it's just the same in most of the big gangs.
~ Scott Lynch
There's going to be a time when MS-13 fires an RPG into an Alexandria [Va.] police car, and [Americans] are going to say, 'What the hell happened?'
~ Roger Noriega
barrios; each barrio has two or three gangs, and all the gangs are theoretically
~ Martin Amis