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Ruby Bridges

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
I believe it doesn’t do yourself any good to hate.
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Believe Goodness Hate Myself
Learn from these monuments, whether we like them or not, and put them in their context.
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History Learning
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
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 stand United against Racism!
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Oppression Race Unity
A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
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Growth Myself Strength
That’s really what my work is all about – bringing kids together.
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Children Myself Togetherness
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 pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.
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Enemy Forgiveness God Myself Pray
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
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 think racism is something that is passed on and taught to our kids, and that’s a shame.
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Children Myself Ourselves Shame Thinking
We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.
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Enemy Evil
I wanted to use my experience to teach kids that racism has no place in hearts and minds.
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Experience Heart Mindset Myself Place Teaching

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