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My mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that.

Ruby Bridges

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 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
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 must absolutely take care of one another.
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Care Oneself
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
I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.
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Enemy Forgiveness God Myself Pray
A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
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Growth Myself Strength
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
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
Love is Love. Better to Love than Hate!!!
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Hate Love
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
Learn from these monuments, whether we like them or not, and put them in their context.
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History Learning
Bravery knows no age or gender.
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Brave One Liner
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
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
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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