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I believe it doesn’t do yourself any good to hate.

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
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
When it comes to love, never be reckless with someone else’s heart.
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Heart Love
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
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
Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.
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Children Heart Start World
You cannot look at a person and tell whether they’re good or bad.
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Appearance Bad Goodness Person Yourself
Now that I’m a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.
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Brave Myself Parents Present
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
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
Bravery knows no age or gender.
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Brave One Liner
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
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
We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.
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Enemy Evil

I believe it doesn’t do yourself any good to hate.

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