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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

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When it comes to love, never be reckless with someone else’s heart.
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Heart Love
I believe in my prayers.
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Believe Myself Prayer
You cannot look at a person and tell whether they’re good or bad.
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Appearance Bad Goodness Person Yourself
Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.
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Children Heart Start World
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
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 do think that some people are born as old souls.
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Born Myself Old Soul Thinking
We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.
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Enemy Evil

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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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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