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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.

Ruby Bridges

I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.
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Enemy Forgiveness God Myself Pray
Evil looks like you and I. I know what evil looks like, and I know that it comes in all shades and colors.
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Appearance Evil Myself Yourself
Bravery knows no age or gender.
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Brave One Liner
Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.
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Children Heart Start World
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
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
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
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
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
You cannot look at a person and tell whether they’re good or bad.
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Appearance Bad Goodness Person Yourself
I do think that some people are born as old souls.
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Born Myself Old Soul Thinking
I believe it doesn’t do yourself any good to hate.
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Believe Goodness Hate Myself
We must absolutely take care of one another.
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Care Oneself
Learn from these monuments, whether we like them or not, and put them in their context.
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History Learning
A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
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Growth Myself Strength

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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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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