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Ruby Bridges

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
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
When it comes to love, never be reckless with someone else’s heart.
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Heart Love
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
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
Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.
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Children Heart Start World
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
You cannot look at a person and tell whether they’re good or bad.
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Appearance Bad Goodness Person 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 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
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
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
I believe in my prayers.
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Believe Myself Prayer
A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
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Growth Myself Strength
Racism is a grown-up disease, and we should stop using our kids to spread it.
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Children Deep Growth Oppression Ourselves Stop
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 in my prayers.

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