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I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.

Ruby Bridges

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
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 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
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
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
We must absolutely take care of one another.
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Care Oneself
I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.
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Enemy Forgiveness God Myself Pray
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
Love is Love. Better to Love than Hate!!!
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Hate Love
You cannot look at a person and tell whether they’re good or bad.
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Appearance Bad Goodness Person Yourself
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
We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.
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Enemy Evil
We stand United against Racism!
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Oppression Race Unity
Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.
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Children Heart Start World
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
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

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