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Love is Love. Better to Love than Hate!!!

Ruby Bridges

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  We have tolerance, respect, and equality in our written laws but not in the hearts of some of our people.

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  We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.

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  Today and Everyday I stand against Injustice and in solidarity with our Asian, Asian-American & Pacific Islander Brothers and Sisters.

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  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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  I believe it doesn’t do yourself any good to hate.

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  My mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that.

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  We stand United against Racism!

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  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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  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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  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.

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  We may not all be equally guilty. But we are all equally responsible for building a decent and just society.

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  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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  I want to inspire kids.

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  I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.

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  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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  I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.

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