I believe in my prayers.
RUBY BRIDGESI was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.
More Ruby Bridges Quotes
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Learn from these monuments, whether we like them or not, and put them in their context.
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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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I do think that some people are born as old souls.
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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 pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.
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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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You cannot look at a person and tell whether they’re good or bad.
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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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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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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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I believe that we have to come together, and we have to rely on the goodness of each other.
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We have tolerance, respect, and equality in our written laws but not in the hearts of some of our people.
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A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
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When it comes to love, never be reckless with someone else’s heart.
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Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.
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