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Now that I’m a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.

Ruby Bridges

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 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 pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.
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Enemy Forgiveness God Myself Pray
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
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
When it comes to love, never be reckless with someone else’s heart.
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Heart Love
Love is Love. Better to Love than Hate!!!
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Hate Love
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 believe in my prayers.
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Believe Myself Prayer
Bravery knows no age or gender.
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Brave One Liner
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
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
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
Learn from these monuments, whether we like them or not, and put them in their context.
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History Learning
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
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
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
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
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 believe it doesn’t do yourself any good to hate.
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Believe Goodness Hate Myself
I want to inspire kids.
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Children Inspirational Myself
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
I think racism is something that is passed on and taught to our kids, and that’s a shame.
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Children Myself Ourselves Shame Thinking
Now that I’m a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.
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Brave Myself Parents Present
We must absolutely take care of one another.
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Care Oneself
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

Now that I’m a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.

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