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Ruby Bridges

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
That’s really what my work is all about – bringing kids together.
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Children Myself Togetherness
I believe it doesn’t do yourself any good to hate.
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Believe Goodness Hate Myself
We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.
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Enemy Evil
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
A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
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Growth Myself Strength
You cannot look at a person and tell whether they’re good or bad.
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Appearance Bad Goodness Person Yourself
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
We must absolutely take care of one another.
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Care Oneself
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
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
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
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
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
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

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