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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?

Ruby Bridges

I believe in my prayers.
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Believe Myself Prayer
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
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
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
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 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 want to inspire kids.
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Children Inspirational Myself
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
I believe it doesn’t do yourself any good to hate.
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Believe Goodness Hate Myself
That’s really what my work is all about – bringing kids together.
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Children Myself Togetherness
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
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 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
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
Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.
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Children Heart Start World
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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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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