Other Wes Moore Quotes

#1. I hear you, but it's not the process you should focus on; it's the joy you will feel after you go through the process. - Zinzi (pg170)The Other Wes Moore

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#2. The importance of education plays a huge role.

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#3. We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations.

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#4. Wes wanted to be just like Tony. Tony wanted Wes to be nothing like him.

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#5. Just stand next to the white people. They'll get off by Hundred and Tenth Street. Justin broke down his strategy for securing a seat as we shoved ourselves onto the crowded Number 2 train heading uptown.

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#6. Sophie Bach from The Maker:
You're a human being with a personality and a will, and you make choices and think and create. Is there no meaning to you, Adrien Bach?
And what about us? Is the way we feel about each other just simulated emotions from some biological process - nothing more?

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#7. My mother is extraordinary; she's a superwoman, like so many other single mothers who are out there.

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#8. When it comes time to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were ever here.

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#9. But really, where leadership is born and where leadership is really bred is ...

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#10. The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.

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#11. Potential is universal. Opportunity is not.

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#12. The importance of high expectations plays a big role.

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#13. Service simply means we embrace the possibility of living for more than ourselves.

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#14. Wes didn't think Tony was a hypocrite exactly
he knew why his brother felt obliged to warn him off. But it was clear that Tony didn't have any better ideas or he would've made those moves himself.

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#15. I just want to make sure that public service doesn't have to be an occupation, but it needs to be a way of life.

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#16. When our passion for the Great Commission, becomes our search for the Great Politician, we know we're lost.

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#17. Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important that not a single moment be wasted.

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#18. After my time working for the government as a soldier, I reacquainted myself with the possibilities of government as a force for good beyond its awesome capacity as a force in war and security.

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#19. I was taught to remember, but never question. Wes was taught to forget, and never ask why. We learned our lessons well and were showing them off to a tee. We sat there, just a few feet from each other, both silent, pondering an absence.

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#20. The common bond of humanity and decency that we share is stronger than any conflict, any adversity. Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount. Knowing when to fight and when to seek peace is wisdom. Ubuntu was right.

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#21. How we spend our days is how we spend our lives, and it's the rare person who can walk away from what feels like a sure thing.

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#22. Kids need to think that you care before they care what you think.

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#23. Why would you accept the Jesus of the Bible, if you have rejected the Bible of Jesus?

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#24. As my sister used to eloquently put it, our mother wore sweaters so we could wear coats.

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#25. When we're young, it sometimes seems as if our world doesn't exist outside our city, our block, our house, our room. We make decisions based on what we see in that limited world and follow the only models available.

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#26. When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here.

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#27. -After all this pain and heartache, how are you now able to forgive? You seem so at peace with yourself and your life. How are you so able to move on? ...
-Because Mr. Mandela asked us to.

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#28. In the United States, we see these same faces, and our reflex is to pick up our pace and cross the street. And in this reflexive gesture, the dimensions of our tragedy are laid bare.

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#29. My father had been my Moses, bringing me to life. Then my grandfather became my Joshua, carrying me through my childhood and teen years into adulthood.

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#30. I just want to do as much as I can while I can, because none of us are promised anything.

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#31. The written word isn't necessarily a chore but can be a window into new worlds

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#32. I sat back, allowing Wes's words to sink in. Then I responded, I guess it's hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances.

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#33. He was telling me that our [country's] blood-soaked and atrocity-littered past was important but that the future didn't have to be its slave.

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#34. One thing I began to realize in my travels was that everyone I met who was truly successful - whether in business, in philanthropic work, in human rights, in government, or in raising a family - shared one common trait: they were fanatically passionate about the work they did.

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#35. My Father's Day Gift will have you remembering those in your life who saw something in you before you saw it in yourself.

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#36. I began at some point to understand the whole idea of accountability and responsibility and leadership, and I think that was something that really birthed something in me, where I knew I wanted to be part of a larger equation in our society.

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#37. They hit you with a knife, you find a gun

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#38. The work is not simply about an occupation .. but why you are here.

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