People who taught me that no accident of birth–not being black or relatively poor, being from Baltimore or the Bronx or fatherless–would ever define or limit me. In other words, they helped me to discover what it means to be free…My only wish–and I know Wes feels the same–is that the boys (and girls) who come after us will know this freedom. It’s up to us, all of us, to make a way for them.

People who taught me that no accident of birth–not being black or relatively poor, being from Baltimore or the Bronx or fatherless–would ever define or limit me. In other words, they helped me to discover what it means to be free…My only wish–and I know Wes feels the same–is that the boys (and girls) who come after us will know this freedom. It’s up to us, all of us, to make a way for them.

– Wes Moore –

The Other Wes Moore

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