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I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.

Ruby Bridges

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
I want to inspire kids.
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Children Inspirational 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
Now that I’m a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.
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Brave Myself Parents Present
I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.
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Enemy Forgiveness God Myself Pray
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
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
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
We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.
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Enemy Evil
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 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
Bravery knows no age or gender.
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Brave One Liner

I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.

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