A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
RUBY BRIDGESWhen it comes to love, never be reckless with someone else’s heart.
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Racism is a grown-up disease, and we should stop using our kids to spread it.
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When it comes to love, never be reckless with someone else’s heart.
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We must absolutely take care of one another.
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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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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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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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We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.
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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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Bravery knows no age or gender.
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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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My mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that.
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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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That’s really what my work is all about – bringing kids together.
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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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