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I felt like there was something I needed to do – speaking to kids and sharing my story with them and helping them understand racism has no place in the minds and hearts of children.

Ruby Bridges

If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened – good, bad, ugly, no matter what – I believe that we’re going to find that we are closer, more connected than we are apart.
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Beginning Believe Connection History Teaching Thinking Yourself
Evil isn’t prejudiced. It doesn’t care what you look like; it just wants a place to rest. It’s up to you whether you give it that place.
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Care Evil Place Yourself
We have tolerance, respect, and equality in our written laws but not in the hearts of some of our people.
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Equality Heart People Respect Tolerance Writing
My mother and our pastor always said you have to pray for your enemies and people who do you wrong, and that’s what I did.
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Enemy Mom Myself Prayer Yourself
We may not all be equally guilty. But we are all equally responsible for building a decent and just society.
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Equality Guilty Responsible
I believe in my prayers.
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Believe Myself Prayer
Today and Everyday I stand against Injustice and in solidarity with our Asian, Asian-American & Pacific Islander Brothers and Sisters.
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Justice Myself
Racism is a grown-up disease, and we should stop using our kids to spread it.
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Children Deep Growth Oppression Ourselves Stop
Bravery knows no age or gender.
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Brave One Liner
You cannot look at a person and tell whether they’re good or bad.
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Appearance Bad Goodness Person Yourself
When I think about our babies today and them not being safe in school, I think that should be the next civil rights movement, you know, is to ban the assault weapons so that our babies can be safe.
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Myself Ourselves Place Thinking
I believe that we have to come together, and we have to rely on the goodness of each other.
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Believe Goodness Myself Togetherness
I felt like there was something I needed to do – speaking to kids and sharing my story with them and helping them understand racism has no place in the minds and hearts of children.
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Children Feeling Help Myself Need Place Story Understand
I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.
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Black Children Myself Success
A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
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Growth Myself Strength
Now that I’m a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.
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Brave Myself Parents Present

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