Wes Moore > Quotes

“-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.”
― Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

“Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount.”
― Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

“From the pastor who has an affair with his secretary, to the jerk at the office who happens to be a deacon, to the overbearing boss who can’t miss his Monday night Bible study, Christians today cause more problems for the gospel than all the devil’s demons put together.”
― Wes Moore, Forcefully Advancing

“When our passion for the Great Commission, becomes our search for the Great Politician, we know we're lost.”
― Wes Moore

“What is missing in our time is not the willingness of God to
act in biblical ways, but the willingness of his people to believe
he is still the God of the Bible—and to act on that faith. To throw
away fear, to stride against common wisdom, to risk all that we
have and all that we are so we may follow only our simple belief
that the God of the Scriptures is still alive and that he will still
do what he says in his Word.”
― Wes Moore, Forcefully Advancing

“But what all these responses have in common is that they point to the decisive power of information and stories [...]”
― Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

“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?”
― Wes Moore, The Maker

“Adrien Bach, main character from The Maker:

You know, when you’re a kid, you think you’re going to grow up to be something special, do something important. You’re not going to be a regular Joe like everybody else. But then you get out there and life starts to hit you. It hits you so many times, eventually you just can’t get up anymore. Or won’t.

And then you just don’t know. Those dreams seem to fade away, and suddenly you’re not sure who you are anymore.”
― Wes Moore, The Maker

“Boredom in teenage boys is a powerful motivation to create chaos.”
― Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore: One Name Two Fates

“Young boys are more likely to believe in themselves if they know that there’s someone, somewhere, who shares that belief. To carry the burden of belief alone is too much for most young shoulders.”
― Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore: One Name Two Fates

“Why would you accept the Jesus of the Bible, if you have rejected the Bible of Jesus?”
― Wes Moore, The Spiritual Top 50

“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: One Name, Two Fates

“This is the story of two boys living in Baltimore with similar histories and an identical name: Wes Moore. One of us is free and has experienced things that he never even knew to dream about as a kid. The other will spend every day until his death behind bars for an armed robbery that left a police officer and father of five dead. The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.”
― Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore: One Name Two Fates

“While reading the (acceptance) letter, I thought about Paul White. Having an advocate on the inside - someone who had gotten to know me on a personal level - had obviously helped. It made me think deeply about the way privilege and preference work in the world, and how many kids who didn't have "luck" like mine in this instance would find themselves forever outside the ring of power and prestige. So many opportunities in this country are apportioned in this arbitrary and miserly way, distributed to those who already have the benefit of a privileged legacy.”
― Wes Moore