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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

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

Appearance Evil Myself Yourself
A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
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Growth Myself Strength
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
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
Bravery knows no age or gender.
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Brave One Liner
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 stand United against Racism!
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Oppression Race Unity
Learn from these monuments, whether we like them or not, and put them in their context.
RUBY BRIDGES

History Learning
That’s really what my work is all about – bringing kids together.
RUBY BRIDGES

Children Myself Togetherness
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
I believe in my prayers.
RUBY BRIDGES

Believe Myself Prayer
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.
RUBY BRIDGES

Beginning Believe Connection History Teaching Thinking Yourself
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
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
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

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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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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