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I think racism is something that is passed on and taught to our kids, and that’s a shame.

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
We must absolutely take care of one another.
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Care Oneself
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
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
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
Now that I’m a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.
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Brave Myself Parents Present
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
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 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
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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Appearance God Greatness Judgement Lesson Skin Teaching
Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.
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Children Heart Start World
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
That’s really what my work is all about – bringing kids together.
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Children Myself Togetherness
Love is Love. Better to Love than Hate!!!
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Hate Love
I do think that some people are born as old souls.
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Born Myself Old Soul Thinking

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