I believe it doesn’t do yourself any good to hate.
RUBY BRIDGESI pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.
More Ruby Bridges Quotes
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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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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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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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We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.
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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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A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
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Bravery knows no age or gender.
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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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We have tolerance, respect, and equality in our written laws but not in the hearts of some of our people.
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I believe in my prayers.
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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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I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.
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Racism is a grown-up disease, and we should stop using our kids to spread it.
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I do think that some people are born as old souls.
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