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

Ruby Bridges

We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.
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Enemy Evil
Love is Love. Better to Love than Hate!!!
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Hate Love
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
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
I believe in my prayers.
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Believe Myself Prayer
Now that I’m a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.
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Brave Myself Parents Present
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
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
A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
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Growth Myself Strength
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
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
Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.
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Children Heart Start World
Evil looks like you and I. I know what evil looks like, and I know that it comes in all shades and colors.
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Appearance Evil Myself Yourself
Learn from these monuments, whether we like them or not, and put them in their context.
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History Learning
I do think that some people are born as old souls.
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Born Myself Old Soul Thinking

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