Today and Everyday I stand against Injustice and in solidarity with our Asian, Asian-American & Pacific Islander Brothers and Sisters.
RUBY BRIDGESMy mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that.
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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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My mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that.
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I wanted to use my experience to teach kids that racism has no place in hearts and minds.
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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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A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
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Now that I’m a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.
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I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.
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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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Racism is a grown-up disease, and we should stop using our kids to spread it.
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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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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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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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I want to inspire kids.
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I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.
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Bravery knows no age or gender.
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