Ruby Bridges Quotes

When it comes to love, never be reckless with someone else’s heart.
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Heart 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
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 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
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
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
I believe it doesn’t do yourself any good to hate.
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Believe Goodness Hate Myself
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
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 want to inspire kids.
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Children Inspirational Myself
That’s really what my work is all about – bringing kids together.
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Children Myself Togetherness
You cannot look at a person and tell whether they’re good or bad.
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Appearance Bad Goodness Person Yourself
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
We must absolutely take care of one another.
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Care Oneself
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
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
Now that I’m a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.
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Brave Myself Parents Present
I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.
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Enemy Forgiveness God Myself Pray
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
Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.
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Children Heart Start World
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
Love is Love. Better to Love than Hate!!!
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Hate Love
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
Learn from these monuments, whether we like them or not, and put them in their context.
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History Learning
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
A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
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Growth Myself Strength
Bravery knows no age or gender.
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Brave One Liner

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