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.
RUBY BRIDGESLove is Love. Better to Love than Hate!!!
More Ruby Bridges Quotes
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I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.
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Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.
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Now that I’m a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.
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Love is Love. Better to Love than Hate!!!
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Bravery knows no age or gender.
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I wanted to use my experience to teach kids that racism has no place in hearts and minds.
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I believe that we have to come together, and we have to rely on the goodness of each other.
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I think racism is something that is passed on and taught to our kids, and that’s a shame.
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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.
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My mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that.
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I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.
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Racism is a grown-up disease, and we should stop using our kids to spread it.
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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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I believe it doesn’t do yourself any good to hate.
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I do think that some people are born as old souls.
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