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

Ruby Bridges

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
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
I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.
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Enemy Forgiveness God Myself Pray
I believe it doesn’t do yourself any good to hate.
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Believe Goodness Hate Myself
Evil looks like you and I. I know what evil looks like, and I know that it comes in all shades and colors.
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Appearance Evil Myself Yourself
Now that I’m a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.
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Brave Myself Parents Present
A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
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Growth Myself Strength
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 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
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
We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.
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Enemy Evil
Learn from these monuments, whether we like them or not, and put them in their context.
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History Learning
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
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
When it comes to love, never be reckless with someone else’s heart.
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Heart Love
We must absolutely take care of one another.
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Care Oneself

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