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That’s really what my work is all about – bringing kids together.

Ruby Bridges

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
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
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
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 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 must absolutely take care of one another.
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Care Oneself
Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.
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Children Heart Start World
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
That’s really what my work is all about – bringing kids together.
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Children Myself Togetherness
Bravery knows no age or gender.
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Brave One Liner
When it comes to love, never be reckless with someone else’s heart.
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Heart Love
A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
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Growth Myself Strength
I believe in my prayers.
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Believe Myself Prayer
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 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

That’s really what my work is all about – bringing kids together.

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