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"I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls."

"The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them."

"The boys are in such a mood that if someone introduced the Ten Commandments, they'd cut them down to seven."
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"Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you."
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"Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress."

"You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters."

"I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves."

"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."

"For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way."
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