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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.

Ruby Bridges

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 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
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
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
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
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
I want to inspire kids.
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Children Inspirational Myself
I believe it doesn’t do yourself any good to hate.
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Believe Goodness Hate Myself
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
Learn from these monuments, whether we like them or not, and put them in their context.
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History Learning
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
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
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
I do think that some people are born as old souls.
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Born Myself Old Soul Thinking

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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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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