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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.

Ruby Bridges

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 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
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
Learn from these monuments, whether we like them or not, and put them in their context.
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History Learning
Love is Love. Better to Love than Hate!!!
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Hate Love
Now that I’m a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.
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Brave Myself Parents Present
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
A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
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Growth Myself Strength
I believe in my prayers.
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Believe Myself Prayer
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
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
When it comes to love, never be reckless with someone else’s heart.
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Heart Love
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
You cannot look at a person and tell whether they’re good or bad.
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Appearance Bad Goodness Person Yourself
We must absolutely take care of one another.
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Care Oneself
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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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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