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Racism is a grown-up disease, and we should stop using our kids to spread it.

Ruby Bridges

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
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
Love is Love. Better to Love than Hate!!!
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Hate Love
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
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
Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.
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Children Heart Start World
Learn from these monuments, whether we like them or not, and put them in their context.
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History Learning
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
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
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
We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.
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Enemy Evil
When it comes to love, never be reckless with someone else’s heart.
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Heart Love
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 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
A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
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Growth Myself Strength

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