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I wanted to use my experience to teach kids that racism has no place in hearts and minds.

Ruby Bridges

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
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
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
That’s really what my work is all about – bringing kids together.
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Children Myself Togetherness
I believe it doesn’t do yourself any good to hate.
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Believe Goodness Hate Myself
I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.
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Enemy Forgiveness God Myself Pray
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
Now that I’m a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.
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Brave Myself Parents Present
Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.
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Children Heart Start World
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
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
A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
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Growth Myself Strength
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
Bravery knows no age or gender.
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Brave One Liner

I wanted to use my experience to teach kids that racism has no place in hearts and minds.

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