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Racism is a grown-up disease, and we should stop using our kids to spread it.

Ruby Bridges

When it comes to love, never be reckless with someone else’s heart.
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Heart Love
The greatest lesson I learned that year in Mrs. Henry’s class was the lesson Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to teach us all: Never judge people by the color of their skin. God makes each of us unique in ways that go much deeper.
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Appearance God Greatness Judgement Lesson Skin Teaching
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
A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
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Growth Myself Strength
I do think that some people are born as old souls.
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Born Myself Old Soul Thinking
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
Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.
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Children Heart Start World
Love is Love. Better to Love than Hate!!!
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Hate Love
Our elders said back then that if Black folks really wanted to see Change, they had to step up to the plate and do it themselves. Somebody has to be First. Will that be you?
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Black Change Oppression Ourselves See Strength Yourself
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
Learn from these monuments, whether we like them or not, and put them in their context.
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History Learning
My mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that.
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Faith Mom Myself
I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.
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Enemy Forgiveness God Myself Pray
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
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
We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.
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Enemy Evil

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