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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

I do think that some people are born as old souls.
RUBY BRIDGES

Born Myself Old Soul Thinking
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.
RUBY BRIDGES

Enemy Mom Myself Prayer Yourself
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
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

Care Evil Place 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.
RUBY BRIDGES

Myself Ourselves Place Thinking
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
When it comes to love, never be reckless with someone else’s heart.
RUBY BRIDGES

Heart Love
Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.
RUBY BRIDGES

Children Heart Start World
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

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.
RUBY BRIDGES

Beginning Believe Connection History Teaching Thinking Yourself
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.
RUBY BRIDGES

Children Hate Oppression People Young
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
I believe it doesn’t do yourself any good to hate.
RUBY BRIDGES

Believe Goodness Hate Myself
Now that I’m a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.
RUBY BRIDGES

Brave Myself Parents Present
We must absolutely take care of one another.
RUBY BRIDGES

Care Oneself

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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