gangs

...[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.

Why weren't there any women in Jesus' gang?_ asked Winnifred. __esus' gang?_ echoed the vicar surprised. __esus never had a gang. Ah_ you mean the Twelve._ Winnifred nodded. The vicar looked perplexed. __ell, it wouldn't really have been appropriate, would it?_ __hy not?_ I asked. __t just wouldn't,_ replied the vicar, looking annoyed at my question. __ut Jesus had a lot of girl friends,_ said Pearl. __e certainly didn't,_ replied the vicar, shocked. __ut Vicar, what about Mary and Martha, the sisters of Lazarus? The Bible says that Jesus loved them,_ insisted Pearl. __nd then there was Mary Magdalene,_ I added. __he wanted to hug him in Joseph's garden when he had just come out of the tomb, but Jesus told her not to touch him._ __es_ well__ said the vicar uncertainly. __hey were good followers of Jesus and they loved him_ as we should all love him. No more questions now. We will be starting the service shortly._ __ot very helpful,_ I whispered to Winnifred. __f Jesus had had a few women in his group of twelve, it would be much easier to know how to live with them.

I don't like the way people cherish the ghetto, as if it__ 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.

The groups in different areas that were affiliated with us knew one thing for sure, and that is that they could trust and respect the base. When you look at it, people want to know they have someone in their corner for the worst. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members

The gangs filled a void in society, and the void was the absence of family life. The gang became a family. For some of those guys in the gang that was the only family they knew, because when their mothers had them they were too busy having children for other men. Some of them never knew their daddies. Their daddies never look back after they got their mothers pregnant, and those guys just grew up and they couldn__ relate to nobody. When they had their problems, who could they have talked to? Nobody would listen, so they gravitated together and form a gang. George Mackey, the former representative for the historic Fox Hill community in The Bahamas.

We really had a close netted structure to rely on for anything, you could have gone by anyone house and get something to eat. Whatever they were eating, they would__e fed you, and all the mothers would__e treated you just like they treated their own. What the gang also did, it provided some level of protection for a lot of the working adults in the neighborhood. They knew that their houses were safe, when they went out to work and didn__ have to worry about anyone breaking in to their homes. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members

Out of all the other gangs that were around, you could always have come to the reasoning table of the Rebellions without being fearful and present your case, and whatever is decided at the reasoning table you know that is what it will be, whether it__ war or peace. Unlike the other gangs that were around, you didn__ even know who to talk to. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members

The first gang members who joined the military were known as the Hounds, a group of former New York gang members.

The 'thin blue line' is nothing more than the no snitching policy found in any other criminal gang.

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.

Gang members have joined the military since the mid-1800s.

Gangs have had connections to the U.S. Military in every period since the founding of the country.

Congress has mandated an annual report on street gang, outlaw biker, and domestic extremist activity in the military since 2008.

Tony's concern disintegrated. He could not understand C.J.'s determination to court death on a daily basis. Or maybe he did understand, and this was what caused his frustration. So many found the same solution his brother had. Selling death to their own people. The money was a difficult lure to resist. Additionally, the fear elicited from their hard core posturing proved nearly as addictive. They demanded to be heard, even though it didn't seem they had much to say. Perhaps the futility and smallness that characterized their lives was too overwhelming to articulate in any manner other than a primitive, incoherent scream. Maybe it was inevitable that those who felt they had no stake in society would opt to destroy it.

We had a genuine love for each other, and we loved being around each other, and in the gang was where I felt love. Troit Lynes, former death row inmate of Her Majesty Prison

Thom pulled nervously at his __ings_ t-shirt. The Kings are a brutal West African gang that he follows onscreen. Such __ourist shows_, as I understand they are called, have become wildly popular in recent years, as global unrest makes actual travel less popular. Armoured imaging teams, using tiny remote drone cameras known as __lies_, take the viewer inside the violent, gang-controlled regions of Nigeria and Cameroon. Using a touch screen, viewers (or __oners_ as they are sometimes called) can follow the action from multiple angles while cheering on their favourite gang.

In East Orange, initiations were completed by murdering someone, for no other reason than to prove to a tremendously cold, tremendously tight brotherhood that you possessed the hardness required to watch their backs.

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