Bay Path College

" The Freedom Writers believe everyone – EVERYONE – has a story. As I look out on the faces of graduates today, I realize that each and everyone of you has a story – a story about what brought you here, a story about what kept you here, and more importantly the legacy that your story will continue once you leave here. Freedom Writer Maria Reyes recently told a roomful of congressmen in Washington, DC, that she was going to be the first Latina Secretary of Education, and she snapped (her fingers). While she was snapping, she was giving a name, a face, and a story to everyone of you today. You have that story, you have that snap, you have that swagger, and you have the ability to go home and dare to dream. And while you dream, realize others are going to get their start from you and follow you. Your story is yet to be written. You can change that cast of characters; you can rewrite that ending. You too can become immortal. You too can make all us proud. You too can finish that story."