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Ruby Bridges

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
Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.
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Children Heart Start World
We must absolutely take care of one another.
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Care Oneself
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
You cannot look at a person and tell whether they’re good or bad.
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Appearance Bad Goodness Person Yourself
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 pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.
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Enemy Forgiveness God Myself Pray
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
That’s really what my work is all about – bringing kids together.
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Children Myself Togetherness
Now that I’m a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.
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Brave Myself Parents Present
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History Learning
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
When it comes to love, never be reckless with someone else’s heart.
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Heart Love
A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
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Growth Myself Strength
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

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