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I think racism is something that is passed on and taught to our kids, and that’s a shame.

Ruby Bridges

Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.
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Children Heart Start World
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
Racism is a form of hate. We pass it on to our young people. When we do that, we are robbing children of their innocence.
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Children Hate Oppression People Young
Today and Everyday I stand against Injustice and in solidarity with our Asian, Asian-American & Pacific Islander Brothers and Sisters.
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Justice Myself
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
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 want to inspire kids.
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Children Inspirational Myself
I do think that some people are born as old souls.
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Born Myself Old Soul Thinking
I believe in my prayers.
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Believe Myself Prayer
I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.
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Enemy Forgiveness God Myself Pray
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 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 was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.
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Black Children Myself Success
That’s really what my work is all about – bringing kids together.
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Children Myself Togetherness
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
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
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
Bravery knows no age or gender.
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Brave One Liner
Learn from these monuments, whether we like them or not, and put them in their context.
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History Learning
A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
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Growth Myself Strength
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
Now that I’m a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.
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Brave Myself Parents Present
Evil looks like you and I. I know what evil looks like, and I know that it comes in all shades and colors.
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Appearance Evil Myself Yourself
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
We stand United against Racism!
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Oppression Race Unity

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