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Evil looks like you and I. I know what evil looks like, and I know that it comes in all shades and colors.

Ruby Bridges

Racism is a grown-up disease, and we should stop using our kids to spread it.
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Children Deep Growth Oppression Ourselves Stop
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
Love is Love. Better to Love than Hate!!!
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Hate Love
I believe it doesn’t do yourself any good to hate.
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Believe Goodness Hate Myself
Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.
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Children Heart Start World
When it comes to love, never be reckless with someone else’s heart.
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Heart Love
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
We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.
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Enemy Evil
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
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
That’s really what my work is all about – bringing kids together.
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Children Myself Togetherness
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
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 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
You cannot look at a person and tell whether they’re good or bad.
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Appearance Bad Goodness Person 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

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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