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

Ruby Bridges

I wanted to use my experience to teach kids that racism has no place in hearts and minds.
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Experience Heart Mindset Myself Place Teaching
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
I believe it doesn’t do yourself any good to hate.
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Believe Goodness Hate Myself
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
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
When it comes to love, never be reckless with someone else’s heart.
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Heart Love
We stand United against Racism!
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Oppression Race Unity
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
Today and Everyday I stand against Injustice and in solidarity with our Asian, Asian-American & Pacific Islander Brothers and Sisters.
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Justice 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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Care Evil Place Yourself
We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.
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Enemy Evil
Love is Love. Better to Love than Hate!!!
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Hate Love
We must absolutely take care of one another.
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Care Oneself
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 believe in my prayers.
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Believe Myself Prayer
Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.
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Children Heart Start World
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
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
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
A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
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Growth Myself Strength
I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.
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Enemy Forgiveness God Myself Pray
That’s really what my work is all about – bringing kids together.
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Children Myself Togetherness
I do think that some people are born as old souls.
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Born Myself Old Soul Thinking
Learn from these monuments, whether we like them or not, and put them in their context.
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History Learning
Now that I’m a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.
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Brave Myself Parents Present
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
You cannot look at a person and tell whether they’re good or bad.
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Appearance Bad Goodness Person Yourself

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