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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

That’s really what my work is all about – bringing kids together.
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Children 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
Learn from these monuments, whether we like them or not, and put them in their context.
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History Learning
I believe in my prayers.
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Believe Myself Prayer
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
Now that I’m a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.
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Brave Myself Parents Present
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
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
I believe it doesn’t do yourself any good to hate.
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Believe Goodness Hate Myself
Bravery knows no age or gender.
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Brave One Liner
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
We stand United against Racism!
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Oppression Race Unity
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
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

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