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Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.

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
That’s really what my work is all about – bringing kids together.
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Children Myself Togetherness
I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.
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Enemy Forgiveness God Myself Pray
We stand United against Racism!
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Oppression Race Unity
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
We must absolutely take care of one another.
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Care Oneself
A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
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Growth Myself Strength
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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Children Hate Oppression People Young
Love is Love. Better to Love than Hate!!!
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Hate Love
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 do think that some people are born as old souls.
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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.
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Enemy Mom Myself Prayer 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
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

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