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My mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that.

Ruby Bridges

A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
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Growth Myself Strength
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
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
We must absolutely take care of one another.
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Care Oneself
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
That’s really what my work is all about – bringing kids together.
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Children Myself Togetherness
Love is Love. Better to Love than Hate!!!
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Hate Love
We may not all be equally guilty. But we are all equally responsible for building a decent and just society.
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Equality Guilty Responsible
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 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
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
I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.
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Enemy Forgiveness God Myself Pray
Bravery knows no age or gender.
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Brave One Liner
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
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
Now that I’m a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.
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Brave Myself Parents Present

My mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that.

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